Yesterday, a three-judge panel from the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals concluded that Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, the law that made America a true democracy for all of its citizens, does not allow private parties to bring lawsuits challenging racial discrimination in voting, which is how the law has worked since it was passed.
If minority voters are going to continue to elect representatives of their choice, they are going to need private attorneys to bring those suits.
The Fifteenth Amendment and the Voting Rights Act were made necessary by the long and ongoing history of political parties seeking to disenfranchise voters on the basis of race.
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