Kagan, Schumer, Obama, Others Accuse Conservative Justices of Gutting Voting Rights Act

‘I dissent, then, from this latest chapter in the majority’s now-completed demolition of the Voting Rights Act,’ Justice Elena Kagan said.

The Supreme Court in Washington on April 22, 2026. Madalina Kilroy/The Epoch Times

Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan filed a scathing dissent to the court’s landmark ruling on Wednesday that deemed race-based redistricting unconstitutional.

In the 6–3 decision, Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson joined Kagan’s dissent, and top Democrat leadership have agreed, calling the conservative justices’ ruling an end to the Voting Rights Act that will erode years of progress on racial discrimination in the United States.