{"id":175218,"date":"2025-10-17T09:05:26","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T13:05:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=175218"},"modified":"2025-10-16T20:27:39","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T00:27:39","slug":"justice-jackson-compares-voting-rights-act-to-americans-with-disabilities-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=175218","title":{"rendered":"Justice Jackson compares Voting Rights Act to Americans with Disabilities Act"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, in her arguments related to Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, attempted to make comparisons with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Just as ADA made buildings accessible to Americans with disabilities, Jackson reasoned that Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act made voting available to minorities. Section 2 of this act is apparently being used to gerrymander by race.<\/p>\n

From Fox News:<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

“Going back to this discriminatory intent point — and the fact that remedial action, absent discriminatory intent, is really not a new idea in civil rights laws. And my paradigmatic example of this is something like the ADA,” Jackson said.<\/p>\n

“Congress passed the Americans with Disabilities Act against the backdrop of a world that was generally not accessible to people with disabilities. And so it was discriminatory, in effect, because these folks were not able to access these buildings — and [it] didn’t matter whether the person who built the building, or the person who owned the building, intended for them to be exclusionary. That’s irrelevant,” she continued.<\/p>\n

“Congress said the facilities have to be made equally open to people with disabilities, if readily possible. I guess I don’t understand why that’s not what’s happening here.”<\/p>\n

Jackson went on to note that the idea of Section 2 is that the government “is responding to current-day manifestations of past and present decisions that disadvantaged minorities,” and to “make it so they now have equal access to the voting system, right? They’re disabled,” she said, drilling down on the hypothetical.<\/p>\n

The lawyer arguing for Louisiana interjected to note, “The difference is that the remedy under the ADA and other anti-discrimination laws are not stereotyping.”<\/p>\n

“It’s not race-based,” Jackson quickly agreed of the ADA and other discrimination laws. “I take your point.”<\/p>\n

“But what you’re saying, then, that if the problem of no access is about race, ‘it’s just too bad,’ because you can’t have a remedy that relates to race?”<\/p>\n

“Absolutely not, Your Honor,” counsel responded.<\/p>\n

Despite the heavy backlash that erupted on social media and suggestions that she was describing Black people or other minorities as “disabled,” Jackson’s remarks were not unique — nor were they unique in the eyes of the Supreme Court.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Additional Reading:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Deppisch, B. (2025, October 16). Justice Jackson’s remarks on minority voters spark heavy backlash: ‘They’re disabled’. Fox News<\/em>. Link<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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