‘Killing our vote’: GOP states rush to break up Black districts after US Supreme Court case

By: Jonathan Shorman

Outlets: DC Bureau (States Newsroom)

Published: May 7, 2026

Words: 1,911

Last Updated: 1 month, 3 weeks ago

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The day after the U.S. Supreme Court crippled the federal Voting Rights Act, NAACP President and CEO Derrick Johnson addressed a virtual gathering for the group’s members and supporters where he ranked the landmark decision alongside the court’s most infamous cases.

Dred Scott excluded Black people from American citizenship ahead of the Civil War. Plessy blessed policies of racial segregation in 1896. And now there was Callais.

The opinion will “probably go down in the history …

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