Former Vice President Kamala Harris joined a cohort of Black women to rebuke the U.S. Supreme Court’s conservative majority for its ruling two weeks ago that gutted the Voting Rights Act, setting off a wave of Republican-led states drawing out majority-Black districts in congressional maps across the South.
On Wednesday evening, Harris delivered remarks during an emergency virtual meeting hosted by Win with Black Women, a pro-democracy grassroots movement of Black women leaders and organizers. The cohort discussed the impact of the Supreme Court’s April 29 ruling in Louisiana v. Callais, which raised the bar for Black voters seeking to prove racial discrimination in redistricting.