Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day.
The metaphor is a wrecking ball. There are still parts of the VRA that are operative, but the two main pillars are now virtually dead letters.
— Professor Rick Hasen, an election law expert at UCLA Law, in comments given to Reuters, concerning the Supreme Court’s handling of the Voting Rights Act. Over the course of the last decade, the Roberts Court has slowly but surely chipped away at the landmark law, leaving it on its last legs.
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