Former President Barack Obama joined several Democrats in criticizing the Supreme Court’s ruling voiding a race-based redistricting map in Louisiana, stating that it “effectively guts a key pillar of the Voting Rights Act.”
In a post on X, Obama claimed that the decision was “one more example of how a majority of the current” Supreme Court justices seem “intent on abandoning its vital role in ensuring equal participation in our democracy.”
“Today’s Supreme Court decision effectively guts a key pillar of the Voting Rights Act, freeing state legislatures to gerrymander legislative districts to systematically dilute and weaken the voting power of racial minorities – so long as they do it under the guise of ‘partisanship’ rather than explicit ‘racial bias,’” Obama said. “And it serves as just one more example of how a majority of the current Court seems intent on abandoning its vital role in ensuring equal participation in our
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