Public trust in the Supreme Court has been at a 30-year low for the last few years.

That's according to Pew Research Center.

For some, though, this month marked a turning point in the court's legitimacy.

Today's decision by this illegitimate Supreme Court majority strikes a blow

against the Voting Rights Act and is designed to undermine the ability of communities of color all

across this country to elect their candidate of choice. That's Democratic House Minority Leader

Hucking Jeffrey speaking after the Supreme Court

decision, Louisiana v. Calais, earlier this month.

The ruling undermined a key provision of the V. Rights Act of 1965, which protected minority

voters and sought to prevent racial discrimination in elections.

But the effects weren't just in Louisiana immediately

after the court ruled. Tennessee's GOP-controlled legislature rewrote its congressional map. They

dismantled the state's only majority black district and put in a new map that gives Republicans

the advantage in all nine districts in that state ahead of the midterms. Other red states across the south,

including Alabama, are now scrambling to redraw their congressional maps as well.

A review from The Guardian released last week, however, found that a key point from the Supreme Court

decision may be flawed. Justice Samuel Alito's claim that black voter turnout exceeded white voter turnout

in two of the five recent presidential elections nationally and in Louisiana was based on

misleading data from the Justice Department. This was a crucial data point in Alito's argument

that the kind of discrimination the Voting Rights Act was designed to prevent no longer exists.

But it's not just voting rights. Recent rulings on abortion, environmental law, even presidential immunity have all helped drive

the court's popularity down and calls for reforming the court up.

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