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Supreme Court guts the Voting Rights Act in “Jim Crow 2.0” ruling

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30.04.2026

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Supreme Court guts the Voting Rights Act in “Jim Crow 2.0” ruling

Justices kept the law on the books but drained it of the power to actually protect voters

Published April 30, 2026 6:30AM (EDT)

In its Louisiana v. Callais decision Wednesday, the Supreme Court nominally affirmed Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, while simultaneously nullifying its intended effect, striking a devastating blow to voting rights in the United States, civil rights advocates and attorneys say, warning that it could thrust the United States back to a pre-civil rights era.

The Supreme Court handed down a 6-3 decision siding with a group of self-described “non-African American” voters in a case centering on whether the state had racially gerrymandered its congressional map by adhering to Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act and drawing a proportional number of majority Black districts to the percentage of Black residents in the state.

The case came on the heels of a long legal battle in the state stretching back to the 2020 census, which reported about 33% of the population is Black. The state then moved to draw just a single majority minority district. In a 2022 decision, federal........

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