The US supreme court upheld race-conscious voting protections. Affirmative action could be next

The court's decision this week served as an affirmation that race-conscious protections such as these can and should exist in US law When the US supreme court abolished women's access to abortion last year, civil-rights advocates saw the future of affirmative action and other longstanding precedents as similarly bleak. So on Thursday, after the court, which has a conservative supermajority, ruled that Alabama discriminated against Black voters by redrawing its congressional districts, those advo...