KDP Statement on Supreme Court’s Voting Rights Act Decision

FRANKFORT, Ky. – Today, Kentucky Democratic Party (KDP) Chair Colmon Elridge released the following statement on the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to gut the 1965 Voting Rights Act, a cornerstone of the Civil Rights Movement championed by Martin Luther King Jr., virtually ending all protections for minority voters:

“The Supreme Court just gave Republican legislatures permission to strip voting power from African Americans, Hispanic Americans and other communities of color. For years, the GOP has been trying to rig congressional maps and suppress voters’ voices in order to give themselves even more power. With today’s SCOTUS decision, they can continue that quest to disenfranchise Americans legally.

“Racial gerrymandering has no place in a democracy. Kentucky Democrats are committed to defending the right of every American citizen to be heard, and to vote.”