After years of limiting voting rights, the US supreme court issued two surprising rulings in voting rights cases this term, both of which are likely to have significant consequences for the 2024 presidential race.
The court’s 5-4 decision in Allen v Milligan earlier this month, upholding section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, is likely to lead to more majority-Black, Democratic-leaning districts in the US House. The 6-3 ruling in Moore v Harper, rejecting the most extreme version of the independent state legislature theory (ISLT), makes it even more difficult for a rogue state legislature to try to override the popular vote and appoint its own electors.
