Raskin: SCOTUS Went After Voting Rights Act ‘in the Name of’ Constitution, It’s Like End of Reconstruction

On Thursday’s broadcast of MS NOW’s “The Last Word,” Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) argued that “We’re looking at a time that parallels exactly what happened at the end of Reconstruction,” because the Supreme Court engaged in a “complete destruction of the Voting Rights Act in the name of the 15th Amendment and the Constitution.”

Raskin argued that any future confirmation hearing for Todd Blanche if he is picked to be the next attorney general should be about “the Callais decision and the Supreme Court’s complete destruction of the Voting Rights Act in the name of the 15th Amendment and the Constitution. We’re looking at a time that parallels exactly what happened at the end of Reconstruction, Lawrence, like in 1877, when, through a combination of voter suppression, disenfranchisement, attacks on the voting rights of black people, they were basically able to purge, I think, 14 African American members of the House