WASHINGTON, April 29 -- Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse issued the following press release:
U.S. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Courts Subcommittee, today released the following statement after the Republican-appointed majority on the Supreme Court issued a ruling in Louisiana v. Callais gutting Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965:
"Today, the right-wing Supreme Court supermajority finished what it started over a decade ago - in Justice Kagan's words, 'a judicial project to destroy the Voting Rights Act.' In doing so, the Court effectively rewrote the Voting Rights Act as enacted by Congress and ignored a mountain of factual findings, substituting its preferred facts to reach this desired outcome....