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Has the US Supreme Court weakened the Voting Rights Act – and how?

decision represents a major reinterpretation of the landmark [Voting Rights Act of 1965](https://interactive.aljazeera.com/aje/live-results-us-election-day-2016/us-elections-2016-who-can-vote/index.html) – in particular, its provision designed to protect minority voters from having their political power diluted. It is unclear

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impact in the outcome of an election.” In a ruling split along ideological lines, the supreme court affirmed that Louisiana’s congressional maps violated the equal protection clause. Writing for the majority, Justice Samuel Alito

Louisiana claims supreme court voting rights decision means it cannot carry out primaries with current electoral maps – live

impact of the law is likely to be far more widespread at the local level.** [As this helpful graphic from the Brennan Center](https://x.com/mcpli/status/2049662054949171552?s=20) points out, since 2015, the vast majority of cases

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minority voters representation in Congress. Within days of the decision, Republican-led states in the south moved to redraw congressional maps to erase majority-Black districts. Some of those maps have already [gone into effect