How one Supreme Court decision could shift political power for decades

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  This is In Conversation from Apple News.

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  I'm Sam Sanders, in for Shamita Basu.

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  Today, how voting rights are changing in America.

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  At the end of April, the Supreme Court issued a ruling that significantly weakened the Voting Rights Act,

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  one of the most consequential pieces of civil rights legislation in American history.

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  The SCOTUS ruling made it easier for states to legally draw voting maps that reduced the voting power

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  of black voters and other minority groups.

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  In response, many Republican officials across the South quickly moved to redraw their districts.

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  A handful of southern states controlled by Republicans are scrambling to redraw their congressional maps in the wake

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  of a landmark Supreme Court ruling that changes the Voting Rights Act.

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  Several red states are now pushing to eliminate majority black districts.

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  Now Louisiana Republicans are trying to push through a new map, creating at least one more Republican-leaning district.

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  Tennessee lawmakers passed a new congressional map yesterday, dividing up the state's lone majority black district.

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  Tonight, Alabama is set to become the latest state to redraw congressional maps in favor of Republicans.

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  Despite protests from Democratic lawmakers and members of the public.

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  While state leaders say they're simply realigning maps with political reality.

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  And many black voters.

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  We met fear their district will be wiped off the map.

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  It 's difficult to convey the enormity of what the Voting Rights Act did,

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  and it is very difficult to predict what its demise will do to our politics.

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