LOADING ERROR LOADINGThe march for voting rights from Selma, Alabama, to the capital of Montgomery in 1965 wasn’t meant to lead to the passage of the Voting Rights Act. AdvertisementSixty years later, opponents of the Voting Rights Act have moved step by step, often painfully, backwards on that path. In the hands of conservative opponents of voting rights, the Supreme Court has subjected the Voting Rights Act to death by a thousand cuts. CHIP SOMODEVILLA via Getty ImagesEven raising the question of whether Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act violates the 14th and 15th Amendments has set off alarm bells in the voting rights community. AdvertisementJust look at what happened after the court disabled Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act in its Shelby County decision.
