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Apr. 30, 2026

Harris after Supreme Court's voting rights decision: 'We have to be ruthless too'

Former Vice President Kamala Harris told attorneys at Public Counsel's annual dinner Wednesday that Democrats had "dropped the ball" on defending against voter suppression ahead of the Supreme Court's Voting Rights Act decision.

Harris after Supreme Court's voting rights decision: 'We have to be ruthless too'
Photo credit : Hugh Williams/Courtesy of Public Counsel

Former Vice President Kamala Harris wasn't surprised by Wednesday's U.S. Supreme Court ruling curtailing Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, but the speed with which the court reached the decision caught her off guard.

Her initial reaction to the decision, she told a crowd of attorneys at Public Counsel's William O. Douglas Award dinner Wednesday evening, was "Shit. This was meant to happen in June."

"I will tell you, my suspicion is, they wante...

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