US Supreme Court 6-3 ruling weakens Voting Rights Act Section 2, striking Louisiana's Black district as racial gerrymander and aiding GOP House control via future redistricting. Impacts felt by 2028.

The Supreme Court’s decision Wednesday rolling back protections for Black and Latino voters marks another dramatic turn in the long-fought effort by conservative justices to reverse measures vital to overcoming America’s legacy of race discrimination.

The 1965 law was mean to address fundamental inequities in American life, and was one of the signal accomplishments of the civil rights movement.

The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision Wednesday that further chips away at the landmark federal Voting Rights Act of 1965 drew sharp condemnation from some Nevada Democratic elected officials. The court’s decision declared a Louisiana congressional map unconstitutional,

David Brooks of The Atlantic and Jonathan Capehart of MS NOW join Amna Nawaz to discuss the week in politics, including fallout from the third alleged assassination attempt on Trump, another indictment of a former FBI director and a consequential Supreme Court ruling.

The majority said the law was a victim of its own success and no longer needed. Dissenters responded that Congress should make the call.

Opinion: The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. cautiously praised the hard-won Voting Rights Act of 1965 as a “great step forward” toward removing obstacles that kept Black Americans from voting.

After the Kangaroo Supreme Court stripped away key sections of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, MAGA influencer and resident scumbag Steve Bannon said the South was the people who had been oppressed because of the Voting Rights Act,

It took the Voting Rights Act in 1965, and its revisions decades later, to restore Black congressional representation in the South after Reconstruction.