They routinely employed beatings, mob violence , and murder to keep Black voters from the polls. White politicians began attacking Black voting power after the 15th Amendment granted Black men the right to vote in 1870. Any student of history reading about the high court's decisions in the 19th century would be struck by its hostility toward Black voting rights. Chief Justice John Roberts said in the decision that the Jim Crow voter-suppression tactics which made the Voting Rights Act necessary did not exist any longer. None of this has made an apparent impact on Roberts or the other conservatives on the Supreme Court, voting rights advocates say.

Source: CNN November 01, 2020 11:03 UTC