SPQR<p>Cough: white supremacy.</p><p>"How can it be that a law enacted to eradicate racial discrimination in electoral opportunity, a crowning achievement of the civil rights era, may fall 60 years later to the argument that the law itself has come to be seen in some powerful quarters as an engine of racial discrimination?"<br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/legal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>legal</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/USpolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USpolitics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>history</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Trumpism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trumpism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/racism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>racism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/bigotry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bigotry</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Repubicans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Repubicans</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CivilRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CivilRights</span></a> <br><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/opinion/voting-rights-act-supreme-court.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nytimes.com/2025/08/25/opinion</span><span class="invisible">/voting-rights-act-supreme-court.html</span></a></p>