Justice
12 Very Real Voter-Suppression Tactics Experts Now Worry Will Come Back
These are exactly the kinds of policies the Voting Rights Act was designed to prevent.
In her dissent to the Supreme Court's 5-4 ruling Tuesday gutting the core of the Voting Rights Act, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg evoked the long history of persistent tactics that have been used to prevent minorities in the United States from voting.
"Section 5 was designed to not have to worry about being one step ahead of what somebody was going to come up with," says Myrna Pérez, the Deputy Director of the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University. "You didn’t have to identify every possible way that something or someone could take discriminatory action."