Madeleine Doubek

Former Executive Director, CHANGE Illinois. Former VP of Policy @ the BGA. Former Reboot Illinois Publisher and Daily Herald Executive Editor.

[Lucas Sanders 👊🏽🔥🇺🇸 @LucasSa56947288]

RETWEET if you support Scott Pelley after CBS News has just fired him.

[Marc E. Elias @marceelias]

I often say that the fight for democracy is the fight of our generation. But let me be clear, if you aren’t fighting for Black voting rights right now then you aren’t really fighting for democracy.

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

Today’s Supreme Court decision effectively guts a key pillar of the Voting Rights Act, freeing state legislatures to gerrymander legislative districts to systematically dilute and weaken the voting power of racial minorities - so long as they do it under the guise of “partisanship” rather than explicit “racial bias.” And it serves as just one more example of how a majority of the current Court seems intent on abandoning its vital role in ensuring equal participation in our democracy and protecting the rights of minority groups against majority overreach.

The good news is that such setbacks can be overcome. But that will only happen if citizens across the country who cherish our democratic ideals continue to mobilize and vote in record numbers - not just in the upcoming midterms or in high profile races, but in every election and every level.

[NY AG James @NewYorkStateAG]

The Supreme Court's decision to restrict the Voting Rights Act weakens one of our most powerful civil rights laws.

The Voting Rights Act was born on the Edmund Pettus Bridge. This decision dishonors that legacy.

I'll keep fighting to protect voting rights and our democracy.

[Andy Kim @AndyKimNJ]

One of the greatest blessings of my life was serving alongside John Lewis in Congress. He gave so much to build and protect voting rights. It’s our turn now on our watch. John would never give up, and we shouldn’t either. We will fight this.

[Senator Angela Alsobrooks @Sen_Alsobrooks]

John Lewis was beaten with clubs wrapped in barbed wire on the Edmund Pettus Bridge fighting for voting rights.

Today’s SCOTUS decision takes the sacrifice and fight of all who marched before us and throws it away.

We must keep marching — too many have fought too hard to give up.

[Michael Waldman @mawaldman]

This decision is a devastating setback in the long fight for equality in political representation for all Americans. By undermining the Voting Rights Act, the Roberts Court has dismantled the ability of voters of color to have a fair chance for representation in government. 1/6

[Terry Moran 🇺🇸 @TerryMoran]

The Voting Rights Act is one of the greatest achievements of American Democracy.

Passed by Congress after passionate debates and hard compromises, signed into law by President Johnson, the VRA dismantled Jim Crow, and broke the machinery of voter suppression overnight. It transformed American politics, accomplished the will of the American people.

Now, in yet another act of arrogant judicial supremacy, the Trump Court has gutted it.

[Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) @TheBlackCaucus]

The CBC is willing to take any measure necessary to protect Black voters across the country from this extremist effort to diminish Black voices and access to fair representation.

Our statement on the Supreme Court’s ruling in Louisiana v. Callais:

[Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock @SenatorWarnock]

Trump’s Supreme Court has gutted the protections that Dr. King marched for.

The protections made possible by civil rights protestors who spilled blood in pursuit of a more perfect union.

This is a devastating and profound step backwards for American Democracy.

[FactPost @factpostnews]

Justice Elena Kagan excoriates SCOTUS's conservative justices for gutting the Voting Rights Act:

"The Callais requirements have thus laid the groundwork for the largest reduction in minority representation since the era following Reconstruction."

[philip lewis @Phil_Lewis_]

NAACP President Derrick Johnson statement on SCOTUS's Louisiana v. Callais ruling:

[Reverend Raphael Warnock @ReverendWarnock]

Trump's Supreme Court is dragging us back to the dark and ugly days of Jim Crow.

https://t.co/7pEYnmS7a6

[Marc E. Elias @marceelias]

Today's VRA decision is intellectually dishonest and wrong. The conservatives basically said: Black people can vote for their preferred candidates, as long as they prefer the right candidates -- which will be Republicans.

An absolutely mockery of the law and stain on the court.

[Wendell Pierce @WendellPierce]

Dred Scott case
Plessy v. Ferguson
and now today. The U.S. Supreme Court memorializes discriminatory policies into law, generation after generation. The Voting Rights Act of 1965 is now constricted, empowering voter suppression of Black Americans. “Makes me sick how far we done fell”

[Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1]

Justice Kagan:

"I dissent. The Voting Rights Act is—or, now more accurately, was—'one of the most consequential, efficacious, and amply justified exercises of federal legislative power in our Nation's history.' It was born of the literal blood of Union soldiers and civil rights marchers. It ushered in awe-inspiring change, bringing this Nation closer to fulfilling the ideals of democracy and racial equality. And it has been repeatedly, and overwhelmingly, reauthorized by the people's representatives in Congress. Only they have the right to say it is no longer needed—not the Members of this Court. I dissent, then, from this latest chapter in the majority's now-completed demolition of the Voting Rights Act."

[Sports Illustrated @SInow]

Cori Close celebrating with her mom after winning the national championship 🥹❤️

(via @MarchMadnessWBB)

[Nicole Auerbach @NicoleAuerbach]

Dancing to celebrate the national title.

[espnW @espnW]

Sisters Lauren and Sienna Betts and the UCLA Bruins are national champs 🏆

[Xavier Sanchez @Xavier_Sanchez4]

Congrats to Angela Dugalić (@AngelaDugalic) and UCLA for their 79-51 defeat of South Carolina to win the NCAA National Championship.

The Maine West grad ended her collegiate career playing 28 minutes while scoring nine points (4-8 FG) with 5 rebounds (one offensive), a steal, and a block in the title game.