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Supreme Court Demolishes Voting Rights Act

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For decades, the Supreme Court has steadily worked to transform the concept of discrimination based on race, from the civil-rights-era vision that the government has an obligation to remedy and prevent racial discrimination to a view that the legal and moral wrong is to see race at all and make any decisions in consideration of it. As Chief Justice John Roberts put it in a 2007 ruling that disallowed a race-conscious measure to address de-facto desegregation in public schools, “the way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race.” On Wednesday, the Court issued its long-awaited decision in Louisiana v. Callais, a case about drawing electoral districts that embodied the clash between those two viewpoints. In Justice Samuel Alito’s opinion for the six-Justice majority, the Court’s idea of racial equality turned out to correspond to a downright dystopian vision of our electoral democracy.

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How the Supreme Court Demolished the Voting Rights Act

Media Coverage · May 2, 2026

The court issued a written opinion.

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  • Meaning and practical effect of the court's opinion
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  • Workplace rights and employment-law claims
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How the Supreme Court Demolished the Voting Rights Act

Media Coverage · May 02, 2026

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The newest docket activity we have is a media coverage dated May 02, 2026.

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The Story So Far

Updated 12 hours, 35 minutes ago

Supreme Court Demolishes Voting Rights Act is an active civil matter. The case is assigned to John Roberts.

Named participants include John Roberts and Samuel Alito’s. The case is currently organized around Current docket activity and next procedural step, Meaning and practical effect of the court's opinion, Federal jurisdiction and procedural posture, Workplace rights and employment-law claims.

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On May 2, 2026, the docket recorded a media coverage: The court issued a written opinion.

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For decades, the Supreme Court has steadily worked to transform the concept of discrimination based on race, from the civil-rights-era vision that the government has an obligation to remedy and prevent racial discrimination to a view that the legal and moral wrong is to see race at all and make any decisions in consideration of it. As Chief Justice John Roberts put it in a 2007 ruling that disallowed a race-conscious measure to address de-facto desegregation in public schools, “the way to stop d

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Media Coverage May 2, 2026

How the Supreme Court Demolished the Voting Rights Act

The court issued a written opinion.

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How the Supreme Court Demolished the Voting Rights Act

For decades, the Supreme Court has steadily worked to transform the concept of discrimination based on race, from the civil-rights-era vision that the government has an obligation to remedy and …

By Jeannie Suk Gersen May 2, 2026 1 min read
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