The Supreme Court’s destruction of the Voting Rights Act reminds us of Kentucky’s ‘Great Dissenter’

By: Berry Craig

Outlets: Kentucky Lantern

Published: May 18, 2026

Words: 1,022

Last Updated: 2 months, 1 week ago

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“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 Roberts court is in many respects a neoconfederate court, and it repeatedly applies the tactics and ideas of the 1880s and 1890s court, whose members likewise could …

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