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Trump Judicial Appointees Are Trying to Make It Difficult to Enforce the Voting Rights Act
They want to prevent individuals and groups from filing voting rights cases
Today, let’s talk about the Voting Rights Act of 1965. We have a critical election coming up so we want to make sure that everyone can vote. Cuz you know, no matter what the outcome of the election is, someone is going to be unhappy and claim voter discrimination … among other things.
But let’s just concentrate on individual voter rights for now. There is a case wending its way through the appeals process which will most likely end up in front of the Supreme Court. It started out as a redistricting case in Arkansas (The Arkansas State Conference NAACP and Arkansas Public Policy Panel v. The Arkansas Board of Apportionment) but the judge, Judge Lee P. Rudofsky who was appointed by Trump, ruled against the plaintiffs, saying that only the DOJ can sue under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act.
And how did a redistricting case end up being filed under a voters’ rights section of the law? Because the redistricting denied Black voters the opportunity to vote for candidates of their choice.
