The Importance of Race in the Voting Rights Act

The decision is a reaffirmation that law and lawyers matter even in the darkest of times./nJustice Jackson was instrumental in the case and not just Duelle Ross./nJustice Jackson argued that race conscious measures might be necessary to include African Americans in the project of democracy, which was transformative./nThe 14th amendment and the Equal Protection Clause were adopted in a race conscious way to ensure equal rights for freed former slaves./nThe report submitted by the Joint Committee on Reconstruction, which drafted the 14th amendment, said that the whole point of the amendment was to secure rights of freed former slaves.