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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Eric Garcia

John Roberts and the Supreme Court handed Trump a lifeline ahead of the midterm elections

The battle for the Voting Rights Act may now be over but the battle over redistricting rages on.

Last week, the Supreme Court ruled on Louisiana v. Callais, which not only requires Louisiana to redraw its congressional maps, but essentially killed Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, the 1965 law that prohibited voting practices or procedures that discriminated based on race. This also includes the process of drawing congressional maps.

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