Missione compiuta. La Corte Suprema statunitense e il "de profundis" per i diritti civili delle minoranze

With its ruling in Louisiana v. Callais on April 29, the U.S. Supreme Court completed a decades-long Republican effort to dismantle the voting rights protections won by minority communities through hard-fought struggles in the middle of the last century. By construing the Voting Rights Act of 1965, as amended in 1982, in a way that effectively drains it of all substance, the Court once again frustrates Congress’s progressive ambitions and lays bare the increasingly politicized and assertive character of the institution.