Supreme Court’s conservatives face choices to limit Voting Rights Act

GOP 'licking their chops' over voting rights case – but face huge hurdle to midterm scheme

As Republicans eagerly await the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling in a pivotal Voting Rights Act case that could potentially change or eliminate the protection of racial communities of interest in redistricting, they are making plans to erase majority-Black and Hispanic districts in states they control.H...

Voting Rights Act: SCOTUS’s pivotal decision

The Supreme Court appears poised to gut the 1965 Voting Rights Act, said Ed Kilgore in New York, and that ruling could shatter the partisan balance in the House for years to come. During oral arguments on Louisiana’s challenge to the seminal law, the court’s conservative justices seemed skeptical that it is still necessary for states to draw majority-minority congressional districts to “prevent the dilution of Black voting influence.” Without th…

Supreme Court’s conservatives face choices to limit Voting Rights Act

The Supreme Court is considering a case that could limit a key provision of the Voting Rights Act, potentially leading to major changes in Section 2.