“The court has the reputation of being conservative, but if you take activism to mean readiness to strike down laws passed by Congress, I think the current court will go down in history as one of the most active courts in that regard,” RBG told the New York Times. Her grim predictions have come true. In the years since Shelby, states have jumped to make it harder to vote, in a passel of laws whose impact falls disproportionately on people of color and the poor. “We put down the umbrella because we weren’t getting wet,” RBG said. “But the storm is raging.”
