From @lessig and @matt_seligman: "In the year after President Biden took office in 2021, 18 states passed 34 voting restriction laws. Many of these new laws became possible because the [#SCOTUS] decision in 2013 in Shelby County v. Holder struck down key provisions of the #VotingRightsAct. Every one of the laws passed the state legislature on a party-line [#Republican] vote."
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@petersuber that’s not how Shelby County worked, though.

It’s a misreading of the Court’s decision.

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