Supreme Court Republicans rush to destroy last vestiges of Voting Rights Act to help party in next midterms

Maybe you can’t hurry love, but you can always hurry the war on the Reconstruction Amendments:

We know the Supreme Court dallied a long time in setting the Louisiana case for reargument, only recently adding a doozy of a question in this racial gerrymandering case that could tee up a potential knocking down of the remaining pillar of the Voting Rights Act, Section 2. I explained the whole thing at Slate.

I had (wrongly) assumed given how long it took to set the case for reargument and to tee up the VRA issue that the Court would move slowly in the upcoming term so as not to mess with potential districts being used in the 2026 elections. (A decision to strike down Section 2, in this era of re-redistricting, could lead to a tsunami of new redistricting harming minority voters in Republican-dominated states.)

Now the Court has set oral argument in the case for October 15, in its first sitting of the new October 2025 Supreme Court term.

When your legislative agenda consists almost entirely of stuff every non-plutocrat hates, democratic elections aren’t really an option.

It’s very easy to tell how partisan the Roberts Court is by how it handles its dockets.

They go fast when they want to go fast and slow when they want to go to slow and the decision is *always* an ideological one.

[image or embed]— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes.bsky.social) Aug 12, 2025 at 6:25 PM