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The U. S. Supreme Court has been weakening the Voting Rights Act of 1965, effectively giving conservative states the power to create Jim Crow Laws that had ended.
The Supreme Court’s first decision was Shelby County v. Holder, where they struck down Section 5 of the VRA, ending the federal requirement that jurisdictions with a history of discrimination get federal approval before changing voting laws.
2. Shelby County v. Holder section 2: The court’s interpretation in this decision narrowed Section 2, which prohibits voting practices that dilute minority voting power, making it harder to challenge gerrymandering or other race-based vote dilution.
3. Louisiana v. Callais: In this decision, the court made it far harder to prove intentional discrimination in redistricting, further weakening the VRA’s section 2.
The Supreme Court is giving corporations that hide behind the present Republican party and the present federal government the power to control who is elected, giving corporations control over how much democracy is allowed in our country.
The president recently signed an executive order that would change mail in voting and stop the U.S. mail service from delivering mail-in ballots in their present form. This order directly violates section one, article four of the Constitution. When several states brought suit against this order to the Supreme Court, it did not immediately find the order unconstitutional.
We cannot vote to change the members of the Supreme Court; however, we can change the balance of power in the Congress in the upcoming mid-term election.
Louis Mollica
Hollidaysburg