A federal judge in Alabama had struck down at-large elections in Mobile, a city with a large Black population, in 1976, only for the Supreme Court, driven by Justice Lewis Powell's racist language, to overturn this decision in City of Mobile v. Bolden in 1980.
Powell's influence in shaping the voting rights decisions had a lasting impact, notably influencing a young John Roberts, who later became the chief justice of the United States, and influenced his approach to dismantling voting rights from the bench.
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