The Guardian view on the US supreme court: its judgments have slowly erased voting rights | Editorial

A landmark ruling set back the right Congress granted – of racial equality in electoral opportunity – to keep Republicans in power In the late 19th century, after Reconstruction, US federal protections for Black voters began to erode. Southern states sought to reshape their electoral systems – through poll taxes, literacy tests and districting – to consolidate political control for white supremacist politicians. Over decades this led to Jim Crow laws, under which most Black Americans in the s...

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