The Supreme Court’s decision limiting the Voting Rights Act appears to hamper Congress from passing legislation to restore the law’s protections for minority voters when states draw new congressional districts, legal experts say.
In the hours after Wednesday’s 6-3 decision invalidating Louisiana’s congressional map, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., was among Democrats who called for Congress to pass a new version of the law to counter the perceived harms of the majority opinion in Louisiana v. Callais.
At an event with members of the Congressional Black Caucus, Jeffries said the bill would be “one of our first acts” if Democrats win control in the November midterm elections, “so we can end the era of voter suppression in America once and for all.”
