The Best Way to Fix the Supreme Court’s Attack on Voting Rights

The Supreme Court’s decision this week to destroy what remained of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 compels us to consider structural reforms to the court itself to preserve the republic. By giving a de facto blank check to Republican-led states to racially gerrymander Black Americans out of electoral power, the court has delegitimized itself and damaged the nation’s multiracial democracy.Rick Hasen, a UCLA law professor who specializes in election law, described Wednesday’s court’s ruling in Louis...