Why The Voting Rights Act’s 60th Birthday Might Be Its Last

“To me, this is it,” said Luis Fuentes-Rohwer, a law professor at Indiana University Bloomington. “I would bet my left arm that they will tell us that Section 2 is in violation of the Fifteenth Amendment.”

Fuentes-Rohwer isn’t alone in thinking that this Court — blithely unbothered by the irony — will likely rule that the law Congress enacted to codify the Fifteenth Amendment is, in fact, a violation of it. 

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