This is the text of a letter I sent today to our local newspaper;
On April 29, 2026, the United States Supreme Court delivered what may turn out to be the final, fatal blow to the Voting Rights Act of 1965. It ruled that states may not adjust congressional districts to improve the chances minority communities have of having actual representation in Congress. That result completely ignores the reality of racial discrimination with regard to voting in this country, but it's even worse than that. We can be sure that the Supreme Court will do nothing to stop states from gerrymandering districts to see that minority communities do not have representation in Congress. That too is racial gerrymandering, but it is a type of it of which the Supreme Court majority, Donald Trump, and Trump's MAGA supporters approve. The issue is not racial gerrymandering. It is who benefits from a state's racial gerrymandering. The Supreme Court says whites do, and we all have to live with that unconscionable conclusion, a truly tragic result.
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