# Destruction of the Voting Rights Act

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Podcast: [Hawk Podcasts](https://stenobird.com/podcast/hawk-podcasts-6751455)
Published: 2026-05-01T16:34:10+00:00
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The Supreme Court's decision in Louisiana v. Calais has effectively ended the Voting Rights Act as Americans have known it for over 60 years. What Clarence Thomas, John Roberts, and Sam Alito accomplished yesterday — stripping Section 2, the enforcement and remedies section of the Voting Rights Act — completes a decades-long project that began with the Shelby County decision in 2013. Hawk walks through Justice Elena Kagan's powerful dissent, which traces the history of the 15th Amendment, Bloody Sunday, the Edmund Pettus Bridge, and the civil rights workers murdered in Mississippi just trying to register black voters to vote. That history is now being undone by six people on the Supreme Court.

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