More on the Gutting of the Voting Rights Act

 More on the Gutting of the Voting Rights Act

April 30, 2026

The more I think about what the Supreme Court did yesterday to the Voting Rights Act of 1965, the madder I get. That decision is white supremacy in action and nothing else. It undoes decades of work on overcoming American racism. It slaps all who marched in the Civil Rights Movement in the face, and it says to those who gave their lives in that movement that their martyrdom doesn’t matter. It takes the US back decades in time, to an era when white supremacy was unchecked and Blacks has essentially no rights at all. At least it does that with regard to voting. Will the bigoted majority on the Supreme Court attack the Civil Rights Act of 1964 next? I would be more than appalled if they do, but I wouldn’t be the least bit surprised. Strict constructionists want the Constitution to mean only what it meant in 1789. But in 1789, our so-called Founding Fathers owned slaves as did nearly every wealthy person in the south and some wealthy persons in the north. The Constitution said a slave was only 3/5 of a person. People were owned, held, and sold as chattel property. We’ve still got a long way to go, but we have nonetheless come a long way since then. The racist majority on the Supreme Court wants to take us backwards not forward, and, because the Supreme Court has the final say on what the law is and what the law means, there isn’t one God-damned thing we can do about it. A Supreme Court decision that is only a ruling on a federal law can be overcome by changing the law; but a Supreme Court decision based on an interpretation of the Constitution can be overcome only if the Court itself overturns it or the Congress and the states amend the Constitution. That certainly isn’t going to happen. So Black Americans are fucked when it comes to voting, and that means we’re all fucked when it comes to voting. I don’t actually believe in damnation, but nonetheless I’ll say: God damn the majority of justices of the United States Supreme Court.