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The Voting Rights Act was created in 1965 to protect minority voters. Section 2 was their main legal weapon to fight unfair maps. That weapon just got much harder to use.
The new standard is nearly impossible to meet
You now have to prove a politician intended to discriminate — politicians almost never say that out loud, so it’s nearly impossible to prove.
The political math hurts them too
• Black, Hispanic, and other minority voters lean heavily Democratic
• Republicans control most state legislatures and draw most maps
• Without legal protection, those legislatures can spread minority voters thin across districts so they never have enough votes to elect their preferred candidates
It compounds existing disadvantages
Minorities already face challenges like voter ID laws, fewer polling locations in their neighborhoods, etc. This removes another layer of protection.
The dissent said it plainly
Justice Kagan warned that under this ruling, states can now “systematically dilute minority citizens’ voting power” without any legal consequences.
Basically — the group this law was built to protect is the group most hurt by gutting it. That’s not a coincidence, which is why critics are calling this ruling a major civil rights setback.