Opinion by Paul Waldman and Greg Sargent: The Supreme Court isn’t bothering to hide its designs on our democracy
to weaken voting rights protections for minority voters, leading observers to discern a new level of hostility to democracy.Meanwhile, one of the major parties is restricting access to voting and further entrenching counter-majoritarian tactics wherever possible. In that context, the use of theto advance a ruling that appears “bizarre” in its use of the VRA seems gratuitously provocative.
“It reinforces how willing the conservative majority is to use emergency shadow docket orders based upon new — and deeply contestable — understandings of the Voting Rights Act,” Stephen Vladeck, a law professor at the University of Texas at Austin, told us.Justice Sonia Sotomayor seemed to gesture at this gratuitousness in her dissent . The ruling is “not only extraordinary but also unnecessary,”“This is part of a pattern,” Vladeck said.
The conservative majority’s hostility to voting rights has left state courts as a crucial place for those rights to be protected — if not reliably, then at least
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