In an article in Think Progress, “If Kavanaugh is confirmed, you can kiss the right to vote goodbye: We’re going to miss competitive elections when they’re gone,” Ian Millhiser writes:

“Chief Justice John Roberts has a plan to neuter the Voting Rights Act. All of it. He’s held onto this plan for nearly forty years, waiting for the day when he could deploy it.

‘That day is nearly upon us. If the Senate confirms Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanuagh to replace retiring Justice Anthony Kennedy, Roberts will almost certainly have the votes he needs to gut America’s voting rights law. It’s not hard to guess what will happen next.”

And Millhiser writes that Kavanaugh, if put on the Supreme Court, would be the deciding vote in making America “a place where black voters wait hours to cast a ballot, while white voters waltz in and out of the polls. It is a place where poor voters must spend four hours on the bus to get they ID they need to vote. It is a place where mapmakers decide in advance who will win elections. And it is a place where the mapmakers are white.”

Read the article here.