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The Supreme Court Crippling Black Voting Power Was Not an Accident
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The Supreme Court Crippling Black Voting Power Was Not an Accident

Slate Magazine·Robyn Nicole Sanders·25 days ago
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Jurisprudence The majority. Photo illustration by Slate. Photo by Melina Mara/Pool/AFP via Getty Images. Sign up for  Executive Dysfunction , a newsletter that highlights one under-the-radar story each week about how Trump is changing the law—or how the law is pushing back. You’ll also receive updates on the latest from Slate’s Jurisprudence team. There is a particular kind of violence the U.S. Supreme Court majority prefers because it can deny it while it is happening. This has never been more obvious than in its ruling in Louisiana v. Callais . Louisiana is soaked in what was done to Black people to make the state exist, and there is no honest way to talk about this case without starting there. Louisiana, like every other Southern state, built its wealth and political order through a system that treated human life as something to be violated and exploited and then insisted on calling that arrangement natural.…

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