Having lived the rise in Black political power across the South enabled by the VRA, Robinson worries he is now a witness to its dramatic demise after the Supreme Court sharply limited the last vestige of the landmark law often called the crown jewel of the civil rights movement.

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    an erosion brought about in no small part by Clarence Thomas.

    Which. You’d think he, of all people, would understand the benefit of the VRA and protecting the rights of people exactly like him. Maybe he just placed it’s value somewhere beneath a yact ride.