4 resultsfor “consequences for Black voters after Voting Rights Act changes”
consequence, systematically dilute minority citizens’ voting power,” Kagan wrote. Sophia Lin Lakin, director of the American Civil Liberties Union’s (ACLU) voting rights project, called the ruling a “profound betrayal of the legacy
Act which had restrained state governments from drawing congressional districts that left Black voters at a political disadvantage. Despite demands from [Donald Trump](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/donaldtrump) for conservative states to conduct mid-decade redistricting, Tennessee
Black voters that were prevalent in many states, including literacy tests, that were designed to prevent them from voting. Section 2 of the act prohibits voting practices or procedures that discriminate on the basis
consequences will be seen both immediately and far into the future.* *“The Court claims to leave the law intact, but reinterprets it in a convoluted way, making it infinitely more difficult—if not impossible