The Roberts Court finally achieved its years-long goal of killing the Voting Rights Act Wednesday, publishing a ruling that, the liberal justices say, will make proving racial discrimination in redistricting virtually impossible.

The Southern Poverty Law Center calls the group that organized the trip, the True Texas Project, part of the “antidemocratic hard right.” Its leaders have expressed fears of white genocide; the woman who funded the trip runs a right-wing-themed cell phone company called Patriot Mobile.

“Of course, the majority does not announce today’s holding that way. Its opinion is understated, even antiseptic,” she continued. “The majority claims only to be “updat[ing]” our Section 2 law, as though through a few technical tweaks. But in fact, those ‘updates’ eviscerate the law…”

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There are so many reasons to support independent journalism it's hard to know where to begin. You've probably heard most of them before so I'll spare you the repetition. But here's one you might not have heard:

Bari Weiss, the editor-in-chief installed by CBS News’ new, Trump-friendly owners, had 15 tables at the White House Correspondents' Dinner!

That's a lot of tables!

Tables at the WHCD are a kind of proxy for who's who in the DC journalism scene. I can tell you from experience, 15 tables is a lot of tables. It may sound silly, but it's a sign of the further erosion of our journalism institutions. The WHCD is a pretty ridiculous event to begin with, so Bari having all those tables might seem par for the course, but that is sorta the point: It wasn't, once upon a time, and things are worse now. 

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