The US supreme court appears ready to nullify the Voting Rights Act | NYGazet

Court has repeatedly expanded states’ leeway to make voting laws that would have previously been deemed discriminatory

The last remaining piece of the 1965 Voting Rights Act – section 2, which empowers the federal government to protect voters from racial gerrymandering meant to dilute Black political power – appears headed for an untimely end. At oral arguments in Lo... [6552 chars]