No sooner had Joe Biden gained the Presidential election than Republican state legislatures started introducing measures to make voting harder in any variety of methods, most of which can suppress Democratic turnout at the polls. Stacey Abrams, of Georgia, has known as the measures “Jim Crow in a suit and tie.” Congress has launched the For the People Act, often known as H.R. 1. Jelani Cobb seems at how the invoice goes past even the Voting Rights Act of 1965 in its breadth, and the way it will probably fare in the Senate. And Jeannie Suk Gersen speaks with David Remnick about the Supreme Court’s views on voting rights. The Court is at the moment weighing an Arizona case that may assist resolve what actually counts as discrimination in a voting restriction.
