Roberts Guts the Voting Rights Act

This cartoon is, of course, addressing the recent Supreme Court ruling that eviscerated the Voting Rights Act. The recent ruling allows gerrymandering that will severely curtail the voting power of entire communities. States are already scrambling to redistrict before the midterms. 

John Roberts, who has a long history of hostility to the VRA, made the statement that “The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating based on race” in 2007 during a case about school integration plans. In 2023, when the Roberts court basically ended affirmative action, Justice Kentaji Jackson Brown wrote in her dissent, “With let-them-eat-cake obliviousness, the majority pulls the rip cord and announces ‘colorblindness for all’ by legal fiat. But deeming race irrelevant in law does not make it so in life.”