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Voting rights advocates vow to ‘relocate’ fight after supreme court gutting

The organizations that fought for majority-minority districts across the US south are organizing their next steps

The voting rights advocates who fought for majority-minority districts across the US south are organizing their next steps after the supreme court effectively gutted the Voting Rights Act on Wednesday and eviscerated much of the work of the civil rights era.

“I think that it is deeply troubling that in 2026 that many of us have less rights than our grandparents had – and that becomes truer and truer every year,” said Ashley K Shelton, CEO and president of Power Coalition for Equality and Justice, a Louisiana-based civic engagement organization and a plaintiff in the Callais case.

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Apr 30, 2026 US voting rights House of Representatives US supreme court

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