From the gutting of the Voting Rights Act in Shelby County v. Holder in 2013 to the racial gerrymandering sanctioned in Louisiana v. Callais earlier this year, to the Court’s latest emergency ruling enabling the current administration’s federal takeover of mail voting, the pattern reveals itself with brutal clarity. Every time Black communities organize, mobilize and build electoral power, the legal architecture shifts to contain it. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson — the first Black woman to sit on the nation’s highest court — has named this pattern from the bench with a moral precision that demands a national reckoning. The question is whether the nation will listen before November.