The decision...would take away the main avenue used to enforce Section 2 of the landmark civil rights law by only allowing the government to bring lawsuits under it.
The ruling cuts against existing practice and precedent, including in the Supreme Court's months-old 2023 decision in Allen v. Milligan, and diverges from decisions in other circuits around the country.
This latest attempt to eviscerate the Voting Rights Act comes after Republicans in statehouses across the country enacted a wave of racially discriminatory legislative and congressional district maps following the 2020 census and the most conservative justices on the Supreme Court have invited legal efforts to kneecap the law.
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