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As to the Voting Rights Act of 1965, I think, if anything, the history of the suffragist movement shows that you can make alliances with people, but you do not compromise on basic human rights.

During the first two years of the Biden administration, Democrats failed to pass their own voting legislation despite a trifecta in government when Republican Senators filibustered the John Lewis Voting Rights Act, which would have restored provisions of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 protecting voters from undue disenfranchisement.

While we expect the courts to block the Georgia board’s most egregious attacks on the votes, we must recognize that these attempted changes would have been harder, if not impossible, to implement in the coming election if the Supreme Court had not eviscerated the Voting Rights Act of 1965, or if Congress had passed the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act.

That only happened after Congress enacted the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965, both of which contradicted earlier Supreme Court decisions.

In 2013, in an act of almost unspeakable naivete, it gutted the Voting Rights Act of 1965, unleashing a wave of voter suppression that continues to this day.