The Supreme Court broke democracy by saying the quiet part out loud (opens in new tab)

Last Wednesday, the Supreme Court’s conservative majority effectively gutted a key 1982 Voting Rights Act protection that required some states to draw a minimum number of majority-Black and majority-Latino districts. The ruling has already reignited the gerrymandering wars — and critics say it’s part of a much longer trend. The groundwork was laid in Rucho v. Common Cause (2019), when the Court ruled federal courts could no longer step in to stop partisan gerrymandering. Before then, the Cour...