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Supreme Court majority eviscerates the Voting Rights Act, inspiring Southern States to interrupt the election process already underway and redraw voting districts to diminish people of color’s representation
June 1st, 2026
Recent rulings by the majority of Supreme Court Justices – all but one of whom were appointed by a President who lost the popular vote – have made the Voting Rights Act essentially useless. These developments are not surprising given the ideologi…
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A majority of the Justices on the increasingly unpopular Supreme Court disregards settled precedent -- again -- when eliminating privacy protections
June 24th, 2022
In Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, a majority of Supreme Court Justices cast aside 50 years of precedent that guaranteed women’s right to make their healthcare and family-planning decisions for themselves. For the past 5 decades, co…
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Fair housing protections remain robust
July 2nd, 2015
For a number of years, the Supreme Court has signaled its interest in deciding a case under Title VIII, 42 U.S.C. §§ 3601, et seq., to address the viability of disparate impact doctrine. The disparate impact doctrine, also known as the discriminato…
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