Supreme Disgust: Nation's Highest Court Guts What Remained of The Voting Rights Act
The US Supreme Court’s conservative majority has committed another judicial abomination, driving a final stake into the heart of the 1965 Voting Rights Act and in the process giving Republicans a good chance of holding onto their majority in the House of Representatives and giving Donald Trump a good chance of dodging his much-deserved third impeachment.
The Court outlawed so-called “racial gerrymandering”— the creation of majority-minority districts designed to ensure Blacks, especially, fair representation in the states of the Old Confederacy in the US House.
The Voting Rights decision lowered the public’s respect for the Court to a record 61% disapproval, according to Gallup and the Marquette Law School. Also, 68% say the Court is “primarily motivated by politics” rather than the law, and 57% say the Court is “going out of its way” not to rule against Trump. Seventy-four percent favor 18-year term limits for justices (as opposed to current lifetime appointments) and 81% favor binding ethics rules to stop, for example, Clarence Thomas from taking expensive favors from persons with business before the Court.
Despite Chief Justice John Roberts’ frequent claims that the Court is not political, it is seen by the public as pro-Republican and pro-Trump—partisan rather than politically neutral. Roberts, sadly, has led the decades long effort to eviscerate the Voting Rights Act. In 1982, as a young Justice Department lawyer in the Reagan administration, he argued vociferously against reauthorization of the Voting Rights Act. All six of the majority justices were appointed by Republican presidents—George HW Bush appointed Thomas; George W Bush, picked Roberts and Samuel Alito; Trump, put Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett on the bench.
https://www.postalley.org/2026/05/12/supreme-disgust-nations-highest-court-guts-what-remained-of-the-voting-rights-act/
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