The dismantling of the Voting Rights Act makes plain a simple fact: many of America’s venerated political institutions are not very democratic; indeed, they were not made for democracy. Five unelected Supreme Court justices dismantled an unmistakably democratizing law, the VRA, which had been passed and renewed on multiple occasions by bipartisan legislative majorities. In 2019, when efforts to restore the VRA were blocked by a Republican Senate majority, that majority represented seven million fewer voters than the Senate Democratic minority that backed it. In January 2022, when majorities in
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