Black Enterprise: Supreme Court May Gut Key Voting Rights Protections. Experts Warn Black Electoral Power Is On The Line
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This excerpt is from a piece that originally ran on August 3, 2025.
Justice Clarence Thomas has made no secret of his disdain for the Voting Rights Act, and other conservative justices, as well as Justice Amy Coney Barrett, have at various points argued for a so-called “race-neutral” approach to redistricting.
Indeed, as Jamaal Lockings, a Dorot Fellow at the Alliance for Justice, argued in his analysis, the gains that Black voters had made before the Supreme Court hobbled the VRA in 2013 were erased by 2020, when Southern states, those states with a history of disenfranchising Black voters, saw white turnout numbers more than 15% higher than Black turnout numbers.