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Topic: Voting Rights Act

Long-time civil rights icon and fighter Annie Pearl Avery visited protesters after the march across Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, in May 2026. She crossed the bridge with MLK, John Lewis and many others in the historic march on "Bloody Sunday" 61 years ago. (Jason Davis / Getty Images)

People are marching in Selma in 2026

CK Smith
Black Louisiana voters and civil rights advocates call on SCOTUS to uphold a fair and representative congressional map in Louisiana v. Callais at Supreme Court of the United States on March 24, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Jemal Countess/Getty Images for Legal Defense Fund)

SCOTUS could erase Black representation

Russell Payne
Justice John Roberts and a protest in front of the Supreme Court building (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

This was John Roberts' plan all along

David Daley
Voters head to the Sam Houston State Office Building near the Texas State Capitol to cast their ballot during the Democratic presidential primary in Austin, Texas on Super Tuesday, March 3, 2020. Fourteen states and American Samoa are holding presidential primary elections, with over 1400 delegates at stake. Americans vote Tuesday in primaries that play a major role in who will challenge Donald Trump for the presidency, a day after key endorsements dramatically boosted Joe Biden's hopes against surging leftist Bernie Sanders. The backing of Biden by three of his ex-rivals marked an unprecedented turn in a fractured, often bitter campaign. (Photo by SUZANNE CORDEIRO/Getty Images)

Voting Rights Act changes rattle Texas

Natalia Contreras - Votebeat
President Donald Trump speaks to journalists at the Kennedy Center on Jan. 29, 2026. (Brendan SMIALOWSKI / AFP via Getty Images)

Trump echoes Nixon's racist strategy

Heather Digby Parton
The Supreme Court's 6-3 decision in Louisiana v. Callais will do severe damage to voters (Douglas Rissing/Getty Images)

SCOTUS unleashes gerrymandering dragon

David Daley
The Supreme Court on November 5, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

Here comes “Jim Crow 2.0”

Russell Payne
March 1965: American civil rights campaigner Martin Luther King (1929 - 1968) and his wife Coretta Scott King lead a black voting rights march from Selma, Alabama, to the state capital in Montgomery; among those pictured are, front row, politician and civil rights activist John Lewis (1940 – 2020), Reverend Ralph Abernathy (1926 - 1990), Ruth Harris Bunche (1906 - 1988), Nobel Prize-winning political scientist and diplomat Ralph Bunche (1904 - 1971), activist Hosea Williams (1926 – 2000 right carrying child). (Photo by William Lovelace/Daily Express/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Conservatives’ war against civil rights

Russell Payne
President Donald Trump (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Trump's midterm playbook

Chauncey DeVega
President Donald Trump and Chief Justice John Roberts (Leah Millis-Pool/Getty Images)

John Roberts betrayed America for Trump

Chauncey DeVega
President Donald Trump speaks in the Oval Office on Aug. 22, 2025. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Trump's 2020 rants are really about 2026

Heather Digby Parton
Attorney General Pam Bondi has demanded sensitive voting information from Minnesota and nearly two dozen other states. (Alex Wong / Getty Images)

DOJ to send election monitors to NJ, CA

CK Smith
Supreme Court Justice John Roberts (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

John Roberts is dismantling America

David Daley
The US Supreme Court is seen in Washington DC on May 25, 2023. (MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images)

This Supreme Court case could upend DC

Sam D. Hayes - The Conversation
Steve Bannon, former advisor to U.S. President Donald Trump, arrives for a hearing at Manhattan Criminal Court on February 11, 2025 in New York City. (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)

The GOP plot to rig a House majority

Russell Payne
Thousands are backed up and waiting to cross the Edmund Pettus Bridge to commemorate the 60th anniversary of events that occurred on the bridge iin Selma, Alabama in 1965. These marchers came to Selma today, Sunday, March 09, 2025. (Michael S. Williamson/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Black voters' power hangs in the balance

Tatyana Tandanpolie
U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts (Leah Millis-Pool/Getty Images)

How John Roberts gutted voting rights

David Daley
U.S. Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson arrives for the third day of her confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee in the Hart Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill March 23, 2022 in Washington, DC. Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, President Joe Biden's pick to replace retiring Justice Stephen Breyer on the U.S. Supreme Court, would become the first Black woman to serve on the Supreme Court if confirmed. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

KBJ: A lone SCOTUS dissenter brings hope

Henry Chandonnet
US Supreme Court Building (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Expert: SCOTUS wrongly awarded GOP House

Tatyana Tandanpolie
Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Another SCOTUS attack on voting rights

Igor Derysh
Brett Kavanaugh | Opponents to teaching Critical Race Theory are in attendance as the Placentia Yorba Linda School Board discusses a proposed resolution to ban it from being taught in schools. (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

SCOTUS joins the GOP racist insurrection

Amanda Marcotte
Texas Capitol (Cotorreando/Getty Images)

We broke the law: Texas GOP official

Brett Bachman
Lyndon B. Johnson with the 6th and 7th grade students in the class he taught in 1928 and 1929. Cotulla, Texas. (CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)

The president who taught migrant youths

Matthew Rozsa
US President Donald Trump and Supreme Court Justice John Roberts (Getty Images/Salon)

SCOTUS gives Trump's Big Lie a boost

Jon Skolnik
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