The Supreme Court’s destruction of the Voting Rights Act reminds us of Kentucky’s ‘Great Dissenter’
This commentary was originally published in The Kentucky Lantern. “There are obvious echoes between Louisiana v. Callais, in which Justice Samuel Alito’s majority opinion finished off the [1965 Voting Rights Act]…and the notorious Plessy v. Ferguson decision, in which the court blessed Jim Crow,” Pema Levy wrote in Mother Jones magazine on May 7. “The […]
Original Source
Read the full article at Ohiocapitaljournal →KhanList aggregates and links to publicly available news content. We do not host full articles from third-party sources. Always verify important information with original sources.