Voter Suppression Is Dangerous, But Not Etched in Stone

While we should be deeply concerned about gerrymandering and voter suppression, we need to remind ourselves that all this is not a fait accompli.

Here we have the Justice Department suing the State of Texas.  At stake are the 14th and 15th Amendments, i.e., citizens’ right to vote.

The U.S. Supreme Court has upheld states’ rights to conduct their elections according to their own policies and procedures, unless they contain something clearly discriminatory.

Other than burning Latinos’ and African Americans’ neighborhoods to the ground, it’s hard to imagine anything more clearly discriminatory than what’s happening in Texas.