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  Good morning.

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  The Supreme Court weakens the Voting Rights Act in a landmark decision.

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  The Wall Street Journal breaks it down.

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  The Fed chair, Jerome Powell, remains defiant as he announces the latest rate decision.

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  I 've said that I will not leave the board until this investigation is well and truly

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  over with transparency and finality, and I stand by that.

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  And the $50 movie ticket has arrived.

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  It's Thursday, April 30th.

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  I'm Cecilia Lay, and this is Apple News Today.

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  Yesterday, the Supreme Court issued a major ruling that could have far-reaching consequences for elections

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  and the voting power of different racial groups in the U.S.

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  In a 6-3 decision along ideological lines, the high court ruled Louisiana lawmakers acted illegally by considering race

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  when drawing a new majority black congressional district.

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  Broadly speaking, the case is about the interaction between two fundamental parts of our law.

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  James Ramoser covers the Supreme Court for The Wall Street Journal.

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  The first being the Voting Rights Act, the landmark 1965 legislation that protects minority voters.

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  The second being the Constitution, specifically the 14th Amendment,

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  which prohibits racial discrimination generally and which the Supreme Court's conservatives

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  generally view as requiring colorblindness.

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  The Supreme Court ruled that states ca n't take race into account even if they 're doing

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