Supreme Court's surprise voting rights ruling divides conservative justices
—in affirming a lower court's decision that the Alabama Republicans' map violated the landmark 1965 Voting Rights Act, which prohibits racial discrimination in voting.
A file photo shows Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas next to Chief Justice John Roberts. In a Thursday ruling on the redrawing of Alabama's congressional map, Roberts and Justice Brett Kavanaugh found themselves on the opposite side of Thomas, siding with the Court's liberal justices.
"Alabama enacted a new congressional map that discriminated against Black voters by failing to include what should've been a new predominately Black district," Biden said at the event. He went on,"The right to vote and to have your vote counted is the threshold of democracy and liberty. With it, anything is possible. Without that right, nothing is possible, and this fundamental right remains under assault."
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