The Voting Rights Act dodged a bullet earlier this month in front of the Supreme Court, but its future remains uncertain. Nightly reports 👇
Voting rights activists rally outside the Supreme Court during oral arguments in the Moore v. Harper case. | Drew Angerer/Getty Images— The Voting Rights Act dodged a bullet earlier this month when the Supreme Court passed on the opportunity to further narrow its scope. In a case out of Alabama, the court
It’s an unexpected development, given the last decade of jurisprudence on the VRA. Sunday marked the 10-year anniversary of the Supreme Court’s decision in, which kicked off a near-unbroken pattern, until this month, of the high court whittling away at the VRA. A decade later, the future of the landmark piece of legislation remains incredibly uncertain.
The court further chipped away at other sections of the Voting Rights Act in subsequent decisions, like one in 2021 adopting five “guideposts” to assess voting rules that activistsdecision and subsequent rulings allowed for what voting rights activists have called a wave of new state election laws that have restricted the vote.
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