2013 Voting Rights Act ruling could make it easier for states to get away with extreme racial gerrymandering
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The 2013 Supreme Court ruling that gutted the Voting Rights Act still finds new ways to scramble the Justice Department's enforcement of the landmark 1965 law.
As legislation that restores a key element of the law makes its way toward a likely Senate GOP filibuster, the Justice Department is heading into the first redistricting cycle in a half century without the Voting Rights Act's so-called preclearance requirement. At stake is whether millions of minority voters will have their political power protected from certain racial gerrymanders in elections ranging from local school boards all the way up to US congressional seats.More Related News