Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan filed a scathing dissent to the court’s landmark ruling on Wednesday that deemed race-based redistricting unconstitutional.
In the 6–3 decision, Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson joined Kagan’s dissent, and top Democrat leadership have agreed, calling the conservative justices’ ruling an end to the Voting Rights Act that will erode years of progress on racial discrimination in the United States.
“Members of the racial minority can still go to the polls and cast a ballot,” Kagan wrote in her 48-page dissent. “But given the State’s racially polarized voting, they cannot hope—in the way the State’s White citizens can—to elect a person whom they think will well represent their interests.”…