As the Supreme Court weighed a conservative attempt to weaken the landmark Voting Rights Act, enacted in 1965 to protect minority voters, the first Black woman to serve on the Supreme Court delivered a history lesson on the divisive issue of race.
on Tuesday weighed a conservative attempt to weaken the landmark Voting Rights Act, enacted in 1965 to protect minority voters, the first Black woman to serve on the Supreme Court delivered a history lesson on the divisive issue of race in the United States.
, Jackson said that "the entire point of the amendment was to secure rights of the freed former slaves." As a result, she wondered, how could the state be barred from considering race when deciding whether more majority Black districts should be drawn? Sometimes, new justices take a back seat in their first few arguments as they settle in, although the last three appointees before Jackson — conservatives Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett — all asked questions in their debut oral arguments.
Across all four oral arguments this week, Jackson spoke more than any other justice, according to Adam Feldman, who tracks court statistics at the websiteOn both days, Jackson was courteous toward lawyers but persistent in following up when their responses were not to her liking.Her line of questioning in the voting rights case, which the court will rule on sometime before the end of June, also seemed to dovetail with fellow liberal justices Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor.
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