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On Wednesday morning the Supreme Court heard what may become the most consequential voting rights case of our lifetimes . In Callais v. Louisiana , the court stands poised to either end or severely restrict the scope of Section 2 of the storied Voting Rights Act of 1965, the vehicle by which the courts and the Constitution protect against racialized vote suppression. If the court ultimately opts to do so—and oral argument signaled as much—the consequences for a multiracial democracy would be widespread and catastrophic. In a bid to turn the Reconstruction Amendments into weapons to protect white people from discrimination, the Roberts court may not only upend d

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