Free to discriminate: How the Supreme Court unraveled the Voting Rights Act

Thirteen years of states doing what the oversight used to stop them from doing, and the stated reason is still that the oversight was outdated.

Thirteen years later, the damage is clear. States freed from federal oversight, many of them states of the old Confederacy, have adopted new restrictions on voting that dramatically dilute minority voting power.

Read it at The Hill ↗

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