01/08/2024

Threats Facing the Voting Rights Act in 2024

Here are three novel legal arguments being made against it

The Voting Rights Act had a roller-coaster year in the courts in 2023, and legal challenges to the landmark law are set to continue this year.

In ongoing redistricting lawsuits mainly across the South, Republican state officials have been raising novel arguments that threaten to erode a key set of protections against racial discrimination in the election process.

While critics have been challenging what the Department of Justice (DOJ) has called"the most successful piece of civil rights legislation ever adopted by the United States Congress" since shortly after it was first enacted in 1965, many voting rights experts say the Supreme Court's current conservative super-majority has inspired new legal strategies.

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