Southern Spaces (Dec 2022)
Voting Rights: Justice Alito’s False, Partisan Facts
Abstract
In October 2022, during oral arguments in a US Supreme Court case concerning reapportionment, Justice Samuel Alito suggested from the bench that racial bloc voting in Alabama is a partisan, ideological difference, unrelated to race. Steve Suitts reviews this voting rights case and briefly explains how Alito ignores Alabama\'s long history of race-based voter suppression and why, if adopted in future cases, Alito\'s ahistorical assertion could devastate Black voters\' chances to win voting rights challenges across the nation.
