‘My vote is my voice’: protesters fight for democracy as Trump casts shadow

Outside the supreme court, protesters invoked the legacy of civil rights giants with a key Voting Rights Act plank at stake

Wearing a T-shirt proclaiming We won't Black down", Wanda Mosley had made the trip from Atlanta. I had to be here because the Voting Rights Act is on life support," the 55-year-old explained. Today the court will synthesise the arguments and decide if they're going to kill it - or allow it to live."

Mosley was among a few hundred protesters who gathered in warm October sunshine outside the supreme court on Wednesday. Inside the building, whose facade was obscured by scaffolding, justices were weighing arguments in a case involving Louisiana electoral districts and section 2 of the Voting Rights Act.