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The Supreme Court just made it easier for politicians to choose their voters instead of voters choosing their politicians.
In a 6-3 decision today, the Court gutted the Voting Rights Act, the law that for 60 years has protected every American’s right to a fair vote.
The ruling effectively lets states draw district maps that break apart minority communities and drown out their voices, as long as the state claims it was done for political reasons.
This is not a left or right issue.
The Voting Rights Act was signed by a Democratic president, strengthened under a Republican president, and renewed by the Senate 98 to 0 as recently as 2006.
Ronald Reagan called the right to vote “the crown jewel of American liberties.”
Today that jewel was cracked.
Districts that have given millions of Americans a real voice for decades are now at risk. The result will be a Congress that looks less like the country it serves.
Congress must pass the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act. The Court has spoken. Now the people’s representatives must answer.
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