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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Alex Woodward

Supreme Court could deliver ‘catastrophic’ decision on Voting Rights Act and blow up protections from racial discrimination

The Supreme Court could give Donald Trump and Republican members of Congress a massive shot in the arm for a gerrymandering arms race across the country.

More than a decade after gutting a key component of the Voting Rights Act, the justices are once again being asked to gut what remains of the decades-old civil rights law, which sought to release the grip of Jim Crow-era threats to the right to vote.

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