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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Alex Woodward

Trump-appointed judges dealt a ‘body blow’ to the Voting Rights Act

REUTERS

Over the last decade, the US Supreme Court has gradually chipped away at a landmark voting rights law adopted at the height of the civil rights movement.

A federal court ruling is teeing up another major Supreme Court case that could radically weaken the Voting Rights Act by blocking private citizens and civil rights groups from filing lawsuits to protect what has become America’s bedrock voting protections.

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