2026-04-29
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Supreme Court ruling today curbs the use of race in drawing voting districts.
Let's get some perspective on what all this means.
June Grasso is our legal analyst at Bloomberg here.
June, talk to us about just the background of this case and then maybe what we may know about this ruling here.
So, I mean, the Voting Rights Act has been under fire for, you know, such a long time.
And the Roberts Court has been very receptive to.
Sort of destroying, I 'll use the word destroying,
the Voting Rights Act in. 2018, I believe it was, they took one part of the act, which required preclearance.
Certain states that had a history, considered to have a history of racism,
Texas, et cetera, certain states in the South would have to get preclearance before they redistricted,
before their plans were approved.
They took away that.
And now this is really the other significant part of the Voting Rights Act, the remaining part of the Voting Rights Act.
Which was passed in 1965, to address discrimination against black votes.
And I 'll just read a line from what the dissenting opinion of Justice Elena Kagan,
the three liberals who are in dissent, said.
Under the court's new view of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act,
a state can, without legal consequence, systematically dilute minority citizens' voting power.