Supreme Court Rules Voting Rights Act 'Sufficiently Risked'
We're told the VRA is 'at risk' as if this isn't the direct, intended outcome of a sustained, decades-long campaign by conservative legal groups and politicians. Recall Shelby County v. Holder (2013), where Justice Roberts famously declared 'our country has changed,' effectively gutting Section 5 of the VRA. That wasn't an 'accident'; it was a roadmap. Louisiana's current congressional map, drawn
by a Republican-led legislature, creates just one majority-Black district out of six, despite Black residents making up one-third of the state's population. This isn't a bug; it's a feature of the post- Shelby legal landscape. So, when MSNBC covers the 'risk' to the VRA, they frame it as an ongoing concern, rather than the inevitable result of political appointments and judicial activism that
began long before this particular appeal. It's less a threat and more a conclusion to a story written by partisan operatives, rubber-stamped by a Court eager to fulfill its original mandate: rolling back gains for marginalized communities. How many 'last stands' can a civil rights law make before we admit it's been systematically dismantled?