Battle for the Constitution: Week of July 5th, 2021 Roundup

Below is a round-up of the latest from the Battle for the Constitution: a special project on the constitutional debates in American life, in partnership with The Atlantic.

The Court’s Voting-Rights Decision Was Worse Than People Think

By Guy-Uriel E. Charles, Charles J. Ogletree Jr. Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, and Luis E. Fuentes-Rowher, Professor, Indiana University Maurer School of Law

Legal scholars Guy-Uriel E. Charles and Luis E. Fuentes-Rowher argue that the Supreme Court’s decision in Brnovich v. Democratic National Committee (2021) substantially weakens the Voting Rights Act and strengthens state authority over elections at the expense of equal protection of minority voters -- establishing the need for Congress to pass a new voting rights law in the near future.