Louisiana v. Callais · ¶126

I dissent. The Voting Rights Act is—or, now more accurately, was—“one of the most consequential, effcacious, and amply justified exercises of federal legislative power in our Nation's history.” Shelby County, 570 U. S., at 562 (Ginsburg, J., dissenting). It was born of the literal blood of Union soldiers and civil rights marchers. It ushered in awe- inspiring change, bringing this Nation closer to fulflling the ideals of democracy and racial equality. And it has been repeatedly, and overwhelmingly, reauthorized by the people's representatives in Congress. Only they have the right to say it is no longer needed—not the Members of this Court. I dissent, then, from this latest chapter in the majority's now-completed demolition of the Voting Rights Act.

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