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Jim Crow was on the ash heap of history. Then came the Roberts court.

Jim Crow laws, the system of racial segregation dismantled during the civil rights era, had long been consigned to history. Critics now argue that recent decisions by the US Supreme Court under Chief Justice John Roberts have rolled back key protections, reviving concerns about voting rights and racial discrimination.

Why now: Fresh commentary linking recent Supreme Court rulings to the erosion of civil rights-era safeguards

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