SCOTUS: Voters Can Be Disenfranchised Now

IdeasVoters Can Be Disenfranchised NowJust say it’s because they’re Democrats.By Adam SerwerGraeme Sloan / Bloomberg / GettyApril 29, 2026, 5:39 PM ET ShareSave Listen−1.0x+Seek0:0011:24For the conservative editor and columnist James Jackson Kilpatrick, the Supreme Court decision outlawing school segregation was an atrocity. Brown v. Board of Education, he wrote in the 1950s, was a “revolutionary act by a judicial junta which simply seized power.” He warned in 1963 that the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act would destroy “the whole basis of individual liberty.” And in a 1965 National Review cover story, he argued that in order to “give the Negro the vote,” the Voting Rights Act would repeal the Constitution.Kilpatrick did not hide the basis of his beliefs: In an article that was spiked…

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