The Justice & The Vulture: How Samuel Alito & Paul Singer tore apart the Voting Rights Act

On June 25th, 2013 the US Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights
Act, when they ruled 5 to 4 that Section 4 was unconstitutional.
The case, Shelby v. Holder, was financed in part by
multi-billionaire hedge fund manager Paul “The Vulture” Singer.


Earlier this week, ProPublica revealed that Singer flew Justice
Samuel Alito on his private jet to Alaska for a luxury fishing
vacation in early 2008 (a gift which Alito failed to disclose).
Singer subsequently had multiple cases before Alito and the
Supreme Court — including a 15-year long dispute with the nation
of Argentina. Justice Alito also just happened to be the surprise
deciding vote on Shelby v. Holder.


That was Singer's holy grail, to destroy the Voting Rights Act,
because he knew it was the key to Republican vote suppression
efforts. Indeed, the entire vote suppression effort that we've
been reporting on for the past decade relied on the destruction
of the Voting Rights Act.


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