Supreme Court’s Voting Rights Act ruling makes it harder to protect minority voting power and alters the landscape of future elections
- Written by Sam D. Hayes, Assistant professor of politics and policy, Simmons University
President Lyndon Johnson hands a pen to civil rights leader Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. during the signing of the Voting Rights Act in Washington, D.C., on Aug. 6, 1965. Hulton Archive, Washington Bureau/Getty ImagesIn a major ruling that would permit weakening the voting power of minorities in the United States, the Supreme Court on April 29,...