NYT Discovers Supreme Court Has Agenda (Decades Later)
When the NYT frames the erosion of the Voting Rights Act as mere 'skepticism,' they're sanitizing a calculated political project. Since Shelby County v. Holder in 2013, which gutted Section 5 (preclearance for states with discriminatory voting histories), we've seen a surge in restrictive voting laws across the former Confederacy. For instance, Texas alone enacted Voter ID laws after Shelby that
were previously blocked, disproportionately affecting minority voters who often lack state-issued IDs. This isn't 'skepticism'; it’s a strategic dismantling, aided by a conservative court majority, to suppress votes precisely where the VRA was most effective. One might wonder if the esteemed justices simply 'skeptical' of, say, Black and brown people exercising their constitutional right to vote.
How many more decades of 'skepticism' will it take before the mainstream media calls this systematic disenfranchisement what it actually is?