The Voting Rights Act has taken two devastating blows. What comes next?

Kristen Clarke was just weeks into her job as the NAACP’s top lawyer this spring when the Supreme Court’s conservative bloc dealt what she described as the second of two “devastating blows” to the 1965 Voting Rights Act.

“We are witnessing the full machinery of government aided by the Court disenfranchising and silencing Black America and hijacking democracy as we know it,” the newly installed general counsel of the country’s oldest civil rights organization responded. Within hours, the NAACP held an emergency town hall to discuss the Louisiana v. Callais Read Entire Article