Supreme Court OKs racist voter suppression

                                                                                      

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Earlier today, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that states can distort their congressional maps to disenfranchise voters of color if they say they are doing it for “political” purposes.

In practice, this will mean that states can get away with flagrantly racist gerrymandering as long as they don’t specifically say they are doing it to affect people of color.

The decision seems to suggest that racism is a relic of the past, that there is no connection between race and politics, and that acknowledging racial discrimination — not discrimination itself — is the real problem.

That is absurd.

• Racism — whether couched as “cultural grievance” or more explicit — is central to Donald Trump’s political career and the entire MAGA movement. “Make America Great Again” has always been shorthand for taking our country back to a time when people of color and other marginalized groups had even less presence and power in our society.

• Of course race and politics are intertwined. The whole reason Republicans are obsessed with maps is because they know that Black and brown voters — for a variety of reasons — tend to favor Democrats.

• Republicans can say they are instituting racial gerrymanders for “political” reasons — i.e. to give themselves an advantage over Democrats — but it is patently discriminatory nonetheless. (And twisting congressional maps into knots for even strictly political reasons is not how democracy should really work either.)

With this and several previous misguided rulings, the Supreme Court has essentially eviscerated the landmark Voting Rights Act of 1965.

This Supreme Court ruling is wrong. Historically so. And it should be condemned.

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