MAGA JUSTICES ALLOW SOUTH CAROLINA TO SUPPRESS BLACK VOTERS’ ELECTORAL POWER
Washington, D.C. – Today, the Supreme Court handed down its decision in Alexander v. South Carolina State Conference of the NAACP, ruling in favor of South Carolina’s gerrymandered maps. Stasha Rhodes, Campaign Director of United for Democracy, issued the following statement.
“Today the MAGA-controlled Supreme Court rubber-stamped right-wing politicians’ strategy of stripping away Black communities’ voting rights and ability to choose and hold their elected officials accountable. That this decision comes just after news of Justice Alito’s ‘Stop the Steal’ sympathies came to light is egregious but not surprising from this broken and corrupt Supreme Court.
This is another relentless power grab aimed at suppressing the voices of Black South Carolinians and making it incredibly difficult for Americans to challenge unconstitutional MAGA racial gerrymanders in future cases .
Our Supreme Court should serve as protector of our democracy, but instead we have a MAGA supermajority – three of whom appointed by former President Trump — intent on taking a hatchet to our rights, our freedoms, and our democracy.
We are at a breaking point and Congress cannot ignore it. It’s time they commit to fixing the Supreme Court to restore equal representation and return power to the people before it’s too late.”