The Future of the Voting Rights Act Depends on... Brett Kavanaugh

New effort by Alabama to gut the VRA was clearly inspired by a recent Kavanaugh opinion.

The state is appealing to the Supreme Court —and Kavanaugh—to help seal the deal.

At issue are Alabama ’s congressional district maps which are, once again, racist.

Alabama is about 26 percent Black, making it the fifth “blackest” state.

Frida Ghitis: Supreme Court struck down a Texas law that severely limited access to abortion access in 2016 .

She says Brett Kavanaugh has shown he lacks the emotional temperament to be entrusted with lifetime power on the highest court in the land.

Ghitis says the question is whether Kavanaugh wants to kill the Voting Rights Act with this argument, in a case where the state is in revolt against a court order.