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5 min readThe Supreme Court has significantly weakened a core provision of the Voting Rights Act, ruling that Louisiana’s 2024 congressional map was unconstitutional because it created a second majority-Black district based on race. The decision, which struck down a map that had been drawn to benefit Black voters, opens the door for Republican-controlled states to challenge and potentially eliminate other Democratic-leaning districts that had been protected under the Act. NPR’s Hansi Lo Wang reports that the ruling could lead to the largest decline in Black representation in Congress in U.S. history. Louisiana has already requested that the Supreme Court speed up the certification of its ruling so the state can begin redrawing its map.
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- 1 (00:03) **Supreme Court Weakens Voting Rights Act** - The Court rules Louisiana's 2024 congressional map unconstitutional for drawing a second district based on race, which benefited Black voters.
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