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Supreme Court limits reach of Voting Rights Act
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The Supreme Court ruled for Republicans in a congressional redistricting case from Louisiana, ruling that a new map was a racial gerrymander even though it was drawn to comply with the Voting Rights Act.
The majority-conservative Roberts Supreme Court on Wednesday further eroded the Voting Rights Act, tossing out Louisiana’s congressional district map after a group of non-African American voters sued,
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The Supreme Court has weakened a key tool of the Voting Rights Act that has helped root out racial discrimination in voting for more than half a century in a case concerning a Black majority congressional district in Louisiana.
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