"The night before the six conservative justices on the Supreme Court issued their decision in a case that betrays the sacrifices, determination, and demand of generations of Black people in this country for political voice and representation, they feasted."

~ Sherrilyn Ifill

#SupremeCourt #VotingRights #discrimination #SamuelAlito #JohnRoberts #Callais #WhiteSupremacy
/2

https://sherrilyn.substack.com/p/scotus-drops-the-other-shoe-on-the

"Decked out in tuxedos and formal gowns, they assembled for a State dinner held in a White House controlled by the most explicitly and destructively racist President to serve in 150 years. They dined on Dover Sole 'expertly prepared and bathed in a nutty brown butter,' 'tender' spring ramps, and potatoes pave."

#SupremeCourt #VotingRights #discrimination #SamuelAlito #JohnRoberts #Callais #WhiteSupremacy
/3

"They raised glasses in toast to the British King, Charles.

One justice, Clarence Thomas was, it appears, the only Black guest in the room."

#SupremeCourt #VotingRights #discrimination #SamuelAlito #JohnRoberts #Callais #WhiteSupremacy
/4

“The John Roberts Court has now declared that racism in American politics is no more. Despite the recent behavior in Texas and North Carolina, Wednesday’s cruel Callais decision pretends that Jim Crow is a bygone era and not this week’s news."

~ Stacey Abrams

#SupremeCourt #VotingRights #discrimination #SamuelAlito #JohnRoberts #Callais #WhiteSupremacy
/5

https://www.ms.now/opinion/louisiana-callais-voting-rights-act-supreme-court-black-voters

"In other words: Discriminating against Black voters is okay because they vote for Democrats. Many Democrats in the 19th century, when Black people overwhelmingly voted Republican, would have enthusiastically agreed with Alito’s assessment. But if you apply Alito’s logic to those white-supremacist Democrats, they weren’t racist either."

~ Adam Serwer

#SupremeCourt #VotingRights #discrimination #SamuelAlito #JohnRoberts #Callais #WhiteSupremacy
/6

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/04/vra-supreme-court-callais-decision/686997/

"They just, you know, wanted to win elections or something, and Black people were in the way."

#SupremeCourt #VotingRights #discrimination #SamuelAlito #JohnRoberts #Callais #WhiteSupremacy
/7

"The Voting Rights Act of 1965, the signature achievement of the Civil Rights Movement, is now as dead as Medgar Evers. It is as dead as Viola Liuzzo. It is as dead as James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner. It is as dead as Rev. James Reeb. It is as dead as Vernon Dahmer. And it is as dead as Martin Luther King, Jr."

~ Charles Pierce

#SupremeCourt #VotingRights #discrimination #SamuelAlito #JohnRoberts #Callais #WhiteSupremacy
/8

https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a71168739/voting-rights-act-civil-rights-supreme-court/

"In a 6-3 decision, Supreme Court conservatives gutted the Voting Rights Act provision guarding against racial discrimination. Dissenting, the liberal justices warned of 'far-reaching and grave' consequences for US democracy."

~ Asawin Suebsaeng and Prem Thakker

#SupremeCourt #VotingRights #discrimination #SamuelAlito #JohnRoberts #Callais #WhiteSupremacy
/9

https://zeteo.com/p/trump-wants-to-spy-more-on-our-allies

"On Wednesday, the Supreme Court gutted what was left of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. ...

We knew it was coming, but it’s still a gut punch."

~ Andrew Torrez and Liz Dye

#SupremeCourt #VotingRights #discrimination #SamuelAlito #JohnRoberts #Callais #WhiteSupremacy
/10

https://www.lawandchaospod.com/p/the-supreme-court-just-effectively

"Wednesday’s 6–3 party-line decision in Louisiana v. Callais will go down in history as one of the most pernicious and damaging Supreme Court decisions of the last century."

~ Richard Hasen

#SupremeCourt #VotingRights #discrimination #SamuelAlito #JohnRoberts #Callais #WhiteSupremacy
/11

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2026/04/scotus-voting-rights-section-two-ruling-history-worst-century.html

"All six Republican-appointed justices on the court signed onto Justice Samuel Alito’s opinion gutting what remained of the Voting Rights Act protections for minority voters, while pretending they were merely making technical tweaks to the act."

#SupremeCourt #VotingRights #discrimination #SamuelAlito #JohnRoberts #Callais #WhiteSupremacy
/12

"Once you knew it was Alito writing it, you knew nothing good was coming."

~ Robert Reich

#SupremeCourt #VotingRights #discrimination #SamuelAlito #JohnRoberts #Callais #WhiteSupremacy
/13

https://joycevance.substack.com/p/the-supreme-courts-decision-in-louisiana

"Justice Alito basically declares racism is over. ... Never, never buy into this narrative that the Republican appointees are just respecting the democratic processes, adopting a modest vision of the judicial role. That is not how they act, and that is certainly not how they acted in this case."

~ Leah Litman

#SupremeCourt #VotingRights #discrimination #SamuelAlito #JohnRoberts #Callais #WhiteSupremacy
/14

https://www.contrariannews.org/p/alito-pretends-racism-is-over-in

"I would not use the word modesty by any stretch of the imagination with Alito, Thomas, or Kavanaugh. Not even. And I did go so far as to say that for Chief Justice John Roberts, this is a huge asterisk on his legacy in such a bad way. I mean, he has had a series of really not good asterisks nest his name, but this I think is one of the biggest ones."

~ Katie Phang

#SupremeCourt #VotingRights #discrimination #SamuelAlito #JohnRoberts #Callais #WhiteSupremacy
/15

"On Wednesday, the Roberts Court destroyed the last vestiges of the Voting Rights Act. ...

The decision is an abomination. It seeks to repeal the voting protections of the 14th and 15th Amendments, which specifically prohibit denial of the right to vote based on 'race, color, or previous condition of servitude.'”

~ Robert B. Hubbell

#SupremeCourt #VotingRights #discrimination #SamuelAlito #JohnRoberts #Callais #WhiteSupremacy
/16

https://roberthubbell.substack.com/p/the-callais-decision-demonstrates

"John Roberts’ career has been devoted to abolishing the race-based remedies in the Voting Rights Act."

#SupremeCourt #VotingRights #discrimination #SamuelAlito #JohnRoberts #Callais #WhiteSupremacy
/17

"The Voting Rights Act is all but dead. Prepare for maximum gerrymandering. The Republican justices just abolished 40 years worth of law protecting against rigged maps."

~ Ian Millhiser

#SupremeCourt #VotingRights #discrimination #SamuelAlito #JohnRoberts #Callais #WhiteSupremacy
/18

https://www.vox.com/politics/487363/supreme-court-louisiana-callais-gerrymandering-alito-voting-rights-act

"As a practical matter, this means that states with racially polarized electorates will almost always be immune from racial gerrymandering suits, because they can defend against those suits merely by proving that their state’s maps were drawn to benefit the Republican Party."

#SupremeCourt #VotingRights #discrimination #SamuelAlito #JohnRoberts #Callais #WhiteSupremacy
/19

"Callais, in other words, is a major victory for Alito’s Republican Party, and it is an even greater victory for the proposition that gerrymandering should flourish without federal regulation."

#SupremeCourt #VotingRights #discrimination #SamuelAlito #JohnRoberts #Callais #WhiteSupremacy
/20

"Race can be used for white voters in the guise of, It's just politics. But when Black voters look to history and ask for the promise of not just constitutional amendments after the end of the Civil War, but the Voting Rights Act itself to be enforced, this court says, Oh no, we can't do that. That would harm white voters."

~ Joyce Vance

#SupremeCourt #VotingRights #discrimination #SamuelAlito #JohnRoberts #Callais #WhiteSupremacy
/21

https://www.joyannreid.com/p/no-king-rotten-court-the-joy-reid

"In reality, what Alito and the majority have done is make it functionally impossible for voters to prove that a given map is an illegal racial gerrymander, no matter how discriminatory the map’s real-world impact."

~ Jay Willis

#SupremeCourt #VotingRights #discrimination #SamuelAlito #JohnRoberts #Callais #WhiteSupremacy
/22

https://ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/louisiana-v-callais-opinion-recap-voting-rights-act/

"Their opinion in Callais preserves only a husk of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, leaving intact the ability of minority voters to cast ballots while simultaneously guaranteeing lawmakers’ power to ensure that those ballots are meaningless."

#SupremeCourt #VotingRights #discrimination #SamuelAlito #JohnRoberts #Callais #WhiteSupremacy
/23

"Republicans across the nation are cheering the sweeping and devastating Supreme Court ruling Wednesday that eviscerated the Voting Rights Act — and, by rendering it nearly impossible to prove that racial discrimination has taken place in redistricting, significantly diminished the likelihood that map makers" (continued in /25)

~ Nicole Lafond

#SupremeCourt #VotingRights #discrimination #SamuelAlito #JohnRoberts #Callais #WhiteSupremacy
/24

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/where-things-stand/republicans-cheer-scotus-ruling-in-states-where-maps-could-change-ahead-of-midterms-and-beyond

(continued from /24)

"who use race in drawing future congressional maps will face legal challenges. …

In Florida’s case, the state legislature, already in a pre-scheduled special session for redistricting, passed the new maps literally today, just hours after the SCOTUS ruling."

#SupremeCourt #VotingRights #discrimination #SamuelAlito #JohnRoberts #Callais #WhiteSupremacy #Florida
/25

"Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshal said the state “will act as quickly as possible to apply this ruling to Alabama’s redistricting efforts and ensure that our congressional maps reflect the will of the people, not a racial quota system the Constitution forbids.”

~ John Sharp

#SupremeCourt #VotingRights #discrimination #SamuelAlito #JohnRoberts #Callais #WhiteSupremacy #Alabama
/26

https://www.al.com/politics/2026/04/alabama-republicans-push-for-new-congressional-map-after-seismic-supreme-court-ruling-its-time-to-act.html

"According to the Washington Post, Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry is preparing to cancel Louisiana’s House primary elections—even though the process has already begun, with ballots sent to overseas voters & early voting about to start. The move would allow Republican lawmakers to redraw the congressional map after a favorable Supreme Court ruling."

~ Aaron Parnas

#SupremeCourt #VotingRights #discrimination #SamuelAlito #JohnRoberts #Callais #WhiteSupremacy #Alabama
/27

https://aaronparnas.substack.com/p/news-republicans-will-cancel-election

"The Louisiana v. Callais decision is ... not a one-off. It’s not an incremental or technical decision. It’s a culmination of a project that reformulates the constitutional order regarding voting rights."

~ Josh Douglas

#SupremeCourt #VotingRights #discrimination #SamuelAlito #JohnRoberts #Callais #WhiteSupremacy #Alabama
/28

https://washingtonmonthly.com/2026/04/30/the-plot-to-destroy-the-voting-rights-act/

"Since the Supreme Court as currently constructed cannot be trusted to protect the egalitarian republic that, as Kagan noted, Union soldiers and civil rights activists fought and died to build, sufficient justices must be appointed to it to remedy the problem."

~ Matt Ford

#SupremeCourt #VotingRights #discrimination #SamuelAlito #JohnRoberts #Callais #WhiteSupremacy #Alabama
/29

https://newrepublic.com/article/209677/supreme-court-voting-rights-act

"The Roberts Court’s decision to effectively neuter the Voting Rights Act gives Republicans new life in their bid to hold on to their fragile House majority in 2026."

~ David Kurtz

#SupremeCourt #VotingRights #discrimination #SamuelAlito #JohnRoberts #Callais #WhiteSupremacy #Alabama
/30

https://morningmemo.talkingpointsmemo.com/p/scotus-gifts-gop-a-fighting-chance