06/03/2026
As a grandchild of Selma’s Voting Rights Movement, Yesterday’s decision by our highest court of our nation is a sin and a shame! By effectively laying the groundwork to steal a congressional seat from a community of interest that was won through a hard fought struggle for freedom and citizenship. The congressional map that struck down was drawn by a neutral party to remedy past and current racial injustice—this same court upheld it a few years ago. It is clear that the majority conservatives of this unsupreme Court is acting in a partisan manner to give the president an advantage in the upcoming midterm election. Once a beacon of fairness and justice, this judicial body for recent decades has worked to erode and undermine all of the democratic gains we’ve made as a nation and tilt the scales away from justice to favor the rich and powerful.
Regardless of your race, you are negatively affected by election chaos that will be wrought. Voting rights, fair maps, and election stability should be virtues valued by all who believe in basic human liberties. If there has ever been a need for court reform, now is the time (term limits and ethics standards). A country cannot stand with such rancor, open collusion, and corruption. 250 years in this experiment in democracy and what we are witnessing in real time is a fall of an empire. It is up to us collectively, we who believe in freedom, to save it. We have work and clean up to do!
