Stephen Miller Against Voting Rights
The Supreme Court, urged on by well-funded far-right ideologues like Stephen Miller, is set to curtail important provisions of the Voting Rights Act, opening the door to aggressive, racially based disenfranchisement.
Conservative dark money groups have heavily funded the Stephen Miller–cofounded America First Legal Foundation. It is now petitioning the Supreme Court to gut key provisions of the 1965 Voting Rights Act. (Anna Moneymaker / Getty Images)
The US Supreme Court is reportedly set to gut core provisions of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, a landmark law that prohibited racial discrimination in the voting process. Urging the court to act is the America First Legal Foundation, a nonprofit public interest law firm cofounded in 2021 by top Trump adviser Stephen Miller.
At the same time, the firm is urging the US Election Assistance Commission, which oversees national voter registration forms, to institute a nationwide policy requiring voters to show proof of citizenship to vote.
Miller’s firm has received millions from conservative dark money groups that have historically funded causes to gut consumer protections and limit voting access, a Lever review has found. The Bradley Impact Fund, a conservative donor-advised fund linked to the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, donated more than $27.4 million to Miller’s firm from 2021 to 2022. Donors Trust, a dark money group connected to conservative mastermind Leonard Leo, gave more than $3.3 million from 2021 to 2023.
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