The Voting Rights Act of 1965 is now 58 years old. If it were a person, it would be eligible to start making IRA withdrawals without penalties next year. Congress has reauthorized it and amended it multiple times over the last six decades. In 2006, the most recent time lawmakers touched it, the VRA received unanimous and bipartisan support in Congress. It is among the most successful laws ever drafted in the history of the republic. According to the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals, though, every
Appellate Judge David Stras spoke for the two-judge-majority. Former Republican Oval Office occupant Donald Trump, a white nationalist sympathizer, put Stras on the bench. Stras’s decision backed a lower court judge also Trump-named against the Voting Rights Act.