“Minorities are the target of electoral discrimination” – Liberation

Capitol, one year later

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–For history professor Vernon Burton, the electoral kitchen led by the Republican Party weakens American democracy.–

Vernon Burton is the chair of the history chair at Clemson University, a renowned public institution in South Carolina. Co-author in 2021 of a book on Supreme Court jurisprudence on racial issues (Justice Deferred : Race and the Supreme Court, not translated), he participated as an expert in a lawsuit against electoral discrimination imposed on ethnic minorities by the State of Georgia, a Republican stronghold narrowly won by Biden.

Since 2020 and the accusations of fraud by Donald Trump, more than a dozen American states, mostly in the South, have imposed measures limiting above all the right to vote of their “non-white” voters. Is this an insurrection, legislative this one, of the Republicans?

It is an attack on democracy unprecedented since the Civil War, which in my view evokes an attempt to return to Confederation. But this offensive does not date from today. Already in the 1980s, Republicans in the South were trying to erode the voting rights of minorities. But under the Voting Rights Act of 1965, these former racially segregated strongholds were subject to oversight by the Federal Department of Justice, which blocked these bills in court. Everything changed in 2013, when the Supreme Court, in its decision <…

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