Portia Wood, an attorney and founder of Legacy Wealth Institute / Black Trust Fund Kids
Tag: Justice Samuel Alito
Posted inElections 2026
SCOTUS Voting Rights decision is ‘almost as bad as it gets’
By undercutting Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, the Supreme Court has fundamentally altered the rules of representation, setting off a new era of legal and political battles over who gets power — and who loses it.
Posted inU.S. Government
House Democrats aim to restore balance and fairness to the U.S. Supreme Court
U.S. Rep. Hank Johnson and other members of Congress have launched the “Court Reform Now Task Force” to restore balance and fairness to the U.S. Supreme Court, introducing multiple pieces of legislation to fix and rebalance the court.
Posted inPolitics
High court upholds South Carolina redistricting, displacing Black voters
The U.S. Supreme Court has reinstated South Carolina’s redrawn congressional map, ruling that it was not unconstitutional racial gerrymandering, despite a lower court’s finding that it had illegally removed 30,000 Black voters to favor a White Republican candidate.
Posted in#Education
SCOTUS punts on race and schools case
By Joseph Williams Word In Black Less than a year after the Supreme Court voided race-based admissions policies in top colleges, diversity advocates breathed a sigh of relief when the high court passed on hearing a challenge to an initiative to bring more Black students to an elite Virginia magnet school. But experts warn that the […]