Justice Samuel Alito candles the Voting Rights Act at a subcommittee hearing, showcasing his efforts to regularly amend and weaken landmark civil rights legislation.
US Supreme Court Associate Justice Samuel Alito testifies about the court's budget during a hearing of the House Appropriations Committee's Financial Services and General Government Subcommittee on March 7, 2019 in Washington, DC.
The Senate's role involves specifically, ‘an unbroken tradition of prohibiting abortion on pain of criminal punishment persisted from the earliest days of the common law until 1973. ’ making changes to election rules—a process known as preclearance. The state or locality had to prove that any changes would not disadvantage racial and ethnic minorities. Rewrite history; distort reality; make up facts; overturn longstanding precedent.
For Justice Alito—with an occasional assist from Chief Justice Roberts—it’s all in a day’s work. Roberts argued that the elections of 2008 and 2012—when there was no difference in voter participation rates between Black and white voters (no ‘turnout gap’)—meant that the Voting Rights Act had done its job and preclearance could be suspended.
Noted another flaw in Roberts’ logic: ‘Throwing out preclearance when it has worked and is continuing to work to stop discriminatory changes is like throwing away your umbrella in a rainstorm because you are not getting wet. ’ The formerly covered states have large nonwhite populations and large turnout gaps, leading to some of the largest statewide turnout distortions in the nation.
Put differently, a decade after, the turnout gap continues to have a disproportionate impact in precisely the parts of the country that were once covered due to their histories of racially discriminatory voting practices. Justice Alito ignored the exploding turnout gap in striking the fatal blow to the Voting Rights Act on April 29, 2026
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