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The Supreme Court’s Conservative Majority Wants to Gut the Voting Rights Act—Again

“Violations of the [Voting Rights Act] should not be made too easy to prove,” a young John Roberts wrote when he worked in the Reagan administration in 1982, “since they provide a basis for the most intrusive interference imaginable by federal courts into state and local processes.” Forty years later, the court’s conservative majority seems […]

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