“A federal appeals court docket issued a ruling Monday that would intestine the Voting Rights Act, saying solely the federal authorities — not non-public residents or civil rights teams — is allowed to sue beneath a vital part of the landmark civil rights regulation,” Politico studies.
“The choice out of the eighth Circuit will virtually definitely be appealed to the Supreme Court docket. However ought to it stand, it could mark a dramatic rollback of the enforcement of the regulation that led to elevated minority illustration in American politics.”
Rick Hasen: “Two Justices (Gorsuch and Thomas) have endorsed this harmful idea; the query if there might be three extra.”
