The WSJ got it wrong: It's this administration who has a Jim Crow fantasy

Instead of taking an objective look at the state of voting rights in this country, which is rooted in its history to exploit rather than provide equality, the Wall Street Journal’s editorial board came together to draft a piece titled “Democrats Have a Jim Crow Fantasy.”

- Marc H. Morial, President and CEO National Urban League

The piece suggests that the Supreme Court’s ruling in Louisiana v. Callais will likely have no meaningful impact on voting rights, arguing that Black voter turnout in midterms increased after Shelby v. Holder in 2013.

After cherry-picking statistics about midterm turnout in 2018 and 2022, the board had the audacity to state that “Many states in the South—including Florida, Georgia, North Carolina and Virginia—have no-excuse absentee voting” while completely ignoring the fact that the administration is aggressively trying to limit absentee voting ahead of this year’s midterms.

It also failed to mention that since 2020, an election with record voter turnout because of mail-in ballots, states responded by passing a record number of voter suppression laws with tactics that include: enforcing strict voter ID laws, shown to impact lower-income voters, purging voter rolls disproportionately, and in many majority Black communities, literally removing ballot boxes.