{"id":7696,"date":"2026-06-02T09:23:53","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T09:23:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africanamericanvoice.net\/?p=7696"},"modified":"2026-07-10T09:26:44","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T09:26:44","slug":"when-supreme-court-gets-the-facts-wrong-democracy-pays-the-price","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/africanamericanvoice.net\/?p=7696","title":{"rendered":"When Supreme Court Gets the Facts Wrong, Democracy Pays the Price"},"content":{"rendered":"

by\u00a0Marc H. Morial<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWhat [Supreme Court Justice Samuel] Alito doesn\u2019t mention is that since 2013, the racial turnout gap around the nation has exploded. It beggars belief that Alito was unaware of this fact. He reached back nearly 20 years to include the only two elections in American history in which Black and white turnout reached parity. Surely, he or one of his clerks checked to see whether they could update the Shelby County argument that racism in American elections was over by using more recent data. But the data is unambiguous: Roberts\u2019s assurances in Shelby County were spectacularly wrong.\u201d \u2014 Kevin Morris, Brennan Center for Justice<\/em><\/p>\n

What happens when the highest court in the land issues a decision based on faulty reasoning or inaccurate data?<\/p>\n

The shameful Plessy v. Ferguson decision in 1896 obliterated 30 years of hard-fought progress toward racial equality under the law and thrust the nation into the dark and violent era of Jim Crow.<\/p>\n