“So it really brings these two lines of cases, the #VotingRights Act cases and the racial gerrymandering cases together where the #VRA may lose. Here we are, recording this on the 60th anniversary of the passage of the #VRA and #scotus appears poised to consider striking down the second big pillar of the #VRA after it had already struck down the first pillar in 2013 in the Shelby County v. Holder case.”

Bloomberg: The Voting Rights Act Is in Jeopardy, Aug 6, 2025

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@BohemianPeasant that gets it exactly backwards, though.

The argument is that this is what the voting rights act actually called for, so it's not undermining it, it's supporting what the act actually says.

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