Ruling by Ruling, the Supreme Court Is Undoing the Civil Rights Movement

By Nikolas Bowie and Daphna Renan

Mr. Bowie and Ms. Renan are the authors of the forthcoming book “Supremacy: How Rule by the Court Replaced Government by the People.”

With its decision this week in Louisiana v. Callais, the Supreme Court gutted a core part of the Voting Rights Act, Congress’s landmark prohibition on voting rules that have the effect of excluding people of color from the political process. In doing so, the court has, not for the first time, claimed an authority to reject laws passed by Congress in service of equal justice and a free society.

And it has effectively killed the Second Reconstruction, the mid-20th-century civil rights revolution. In the face of this decision, Congress must........

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