Rodney Coates in The Conversation: ‘Supreme Court rules in favor of Black voters in Alabama and protects landmark Voting Rights Act’
The Conversation asked Coates four questions about the June 8, 2023, ruling and its implications.
Rodney Coates in The Conversation: ‘Supreme Court rules in favor of Black voters in Alabama and protects landmark Voting Rights Act’
In a surprising ruling on June 8, 2023, the conservative leaning U.S. Supreme Court threw out Republican-drawn congressional districts in Alabama that a lower court had ruled discriminated against Black voters and violated Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
Rodney Coates, professor of Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, has followed efforts by politicians throughout American history to use redistricting to disenfranchise Black voters. The Conversation asked him four questions about the ruling and its implications.
Read the article “Supreme Court rules in favor of Black voters in Alabama and protects landmark Voting Rights Act” in The Conversation (June 9).
