The Independent Citizen Commission: Our Best Chance at Ending and Restoring the Promise of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
In 2013, the United States Supreme Court struck down a critical part of the Voting Rights Act of j 965, making it easier than it's been in decades toquietthevoices of racialminorities atthe ballot box. In 2019, the Court then decided that it would not stop states from redrawing their voting districts to accomplish their own political goals. While redrawing voting districts for racially discriminatory purposes is still technically illegal on paper, the combined effect of these decisions will be to allow states to get away with it in practice. Now. in the wake of the decennial Census, states will again have the opportunity to redraw their voting districts, shaping the landscape of our electoral system for the next decade, and without the protections of the Voting Rights Act for the first time in over five decades.
