Supreme Court redistricting fight sounds the death knell for Voting Rights Act

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WASHINGTON (CN) — The crowning achievement of the Civil Rights Movement faces extinction at the Supreme Court next week as the justices consider whether a safeguard against racial discrimination is unconstitutional.

The justices will hear oral arguments Wednesday in Louisiana v. Callais, which asks whether adding a second majority-Black district to the state’s voting maps violated the 14th and 15th Amendments. But the high court’s decision stands to ripple across the nation, impacting redistricting nationwide.

“This is about more than lines on a map — it could decide whether millions of Black, Latino and other voters of color still have a voice in our representative democracy,” said Lauren Groh-Wargo, CEO of Fair Fight Action.

For decades, the Roberts court has chipped away at the Voting Rights Act, leaving Section 2, which prohibits discriminatory vote dilution, as one of its last remaining enforceable provisions. Now that too is at risk, setting up the potential for the justices to nullify the landmark law.

“Without the protections of Section 2, there will be very few checks on undoing all that progress that has been made since 1965 and potential backsliding to conditions that we saw prior to the enactment of the Voting Rights Act,” Sophia Lin Lakin, director of the ACLU Voting Rights Project, said.

Supreme Court redistricting fight sounds the death knell for Voting Rights Act

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