“We Could See the Largest Drop in Black Representation Since the End of Reconstruction.”
The Supreme Court gutted what's left of the Voting Rights Act. Here's what happens now.
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freestar.config.enabled_slots.push({ placementName: "motherjones_right_rail_1", slotId: "ROS_ATF_300x600" }); "My expectations are that every southern state will redraw their districts," said voting rights correspondent Ari Berman, after this week's historic gutting of the Voting Rights Act by the Supreme Court. Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. On Wednesday, the Supreme Court dealt a death blow to the country’s most important civil rights legislation, the Voting Rights Act of 1965—the law that defeated Jim Crow.
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