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How a fringe idea about race took over the Supreme Court

This man fought a four-decade war against the Voting Rights Act. He has some help from a once-small faction within the Republican Party that took over the Supreme Court. | Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Last June, in a case that effectively guaranteed one of Alabama’s Black Democratic members of Congress would be replaced by a white Republican, the Supreme Court used a single word that delighted movement conservatives and made many longtime civil rights advocates want to weep. In the first sentence of its decision in Allen v. Milligan (2026), most of the justices concluded that there...