{"id":7716,"date":"2025-11-09T23:33:52","date_gmt":"2025-11-09T23:33:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/?p=7716"},"modified":"2025-11-09T23:33:55","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T23:33:55","slug":"anderson-analyzes-fate-of-voting-rights-act-at-supreme-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/2025\/11\/09\/anderson-analyzes-fate-of-voting-rights-act-at-supreme-court\/","title":{"rendered":"Anderson Analyzes Fate of Voting Rights Act at Supreme Court"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"http:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/files\/2023\/04\/carol-anderson-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6548\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/files\/2023\/04\/carol-anderson-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/files\/2023\/04\/carol-anderson-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/files\/2023\/04\/carol-anderson-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/files\/2023\/04\/carol-anderson.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/aas.emory.edu\/people\/bios\/faculty\/anderson-carol.html\">Dr. Carol Anderson<\/a>, Robert W. Woodruff Professor of African American Studies, recently offered analysis on <em>MSNBC <\/em>about the U.S. Supreme Court&#8217;s upcoming review of the Voting Rights Act. Along with <em>Slate <\/em>senior writer Mark Joseph Stern and <em>The Crystal Ball<\/em> editor-in-chief Larry Sabato, Anderson discusses the likely effects of further weakening the landmark legislation, including for the 2026 midterm elections. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anderson is the author of many books, including <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomsbury.com\/us\/one-person-no-vote-9781635571387\/\">One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression is Destroying our Democracy<\/a><\/em> (Bloomsbury, 2018) and <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomsbury.com\/us\/second-9781635574258\/\">The Second: Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal America<\/a><\/em> (Bloomsbury, 2021). Dr. Anderson is affiliated faculty in Emory&#8217;s History Department. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Find the MSNBC discussion <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/katy-tur\/watch\/supreme-court-leans-toward-further-weakening-voting-rights-act-which-could-impact-house-in-2026-249965125545\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Carol Anderson, Robert W. Woodruff Professor of African American Studies, recently offered analysis on MSNBC about the U.S. Supreme Court&#8217;s upcoming review of the Voting Rights Act. Along with Slate senior writer Mark Joseph Stern and The Crystal Ball editor-in-chief Larry Sabato, Anderson discusses the likely effects of further weakening the landmark legislation, including [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8470,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","hentry","category-faculty","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8470"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7716"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7717,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7716\/revisions\/7717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}