Posted on 07/31/2025 12:13:33 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Republicans are increasingly bullish they can whittle away at the Voting Rights Act (VRA) as Democrats renew a long-shot effort to broaden the landmark law that turns 60 next week.
The Supreme Court could become the arbiter of Republicans’ efforts, with a major Louisiana redistricting battle set for rehearing next term and other battles bubbling up in the lower courts.
The conservative-majority high court has already eviscerated significant parts of the VRA, but the new legal fronts could reshape decades-long precedent of legal battles over political power.
“There are clouds around, and a lot of them are circling the Supreme Court at the moment,” said Adriel Cepeda Derieux, the deputy director of the American Civil Liberties Union’s (ACLU) Voting Rights Project.
With Democrats viewing the law as under siege from federal court rulings, a group of Democratic senators reintroduced a bill Tuesday that would restore and expand protections of the VRA.
The legislation would reimpose the VRA’s requirement struck down in 2013 by the Supreme Court that jurisdictions with a history of discriminatory practices receive federal approval before changing their voting laws; prevent voters from being purged from voter rolls if they haven’t voted recently; and add protections for poll workers against threats and intimidation.
“Voting rights are preservative of all other rights,” Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.) said at a press conference announcing the bill’s reintroduction. “The democracy is the very house in which we live. It is the framework in which we get to fight for the things that we care about.”
But the bill faces long odds in a Republican-controlled Congress and could face constitutional challenges, if ever enacted.
Meanwhile, Republicans have set their sights on weakening the VRA by preventing voters and private groups from enforcing it.
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Fixed it.
Now if only they could repeal the 1965 Suicide Pact.
All they got rid of was pre-clearance.
Well once again The Hill is shamelessly lying
All the things they claim were “struck down” are law here in GA. We have had these laws for almost 2 decades and they work very well
BTW, screaming Democrat propaganda clowns. Please explain how GA has 2 Democrat Senators?
So just stop lying about these laws shamelessly habitual scum.
If that's not sufficient to eradicate racism in elections, it can't be done within the existing Constitution.
I remember the 60’s and I would have said back then that it was needed, but that time has passed and the act has stayed with us. If they can get past the propaganda to really get this done, it will be great.
Exactly. What a loaded headline.
The Left will never stop. And unfortunately this kind of stuff does indeed influence a lot of people. Maybe not as many as it used to, but still a substantial number of people.
Things were the way they used to be for good reasons.
I’d say blow the whole thing away, but at a minimum, get rid of the special scrutiny for the southern states. The South has been growing at an incredible rate, and the population is entirely different than the Jim Crow era that the original bill sought to punish in the 1960’s. That you would try to accomplish equal protection under the law by discriminating against specific geographies is absurd. That SCOTUS has supported it for 60 years is an embarassment.
The Hill aka The Hillofbullshit
You can’t be a reputable publication and use that as a lede.
These are the same people who think having to show ID to vote is a hate crime!
Fixed it.
Thought the same thing!!
It's THE HELL, not The Hill and I editor in chief is Mr. Satan Devil...😀
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