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    The Supreme Court limited a key provision of the Voting Rights Act Wednesday

    https://www.axios.com/2026/04/29…

    The ruling could reshape voting all across the South and could boost the Republican majority in the House by an additional 19 seats.

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    • This is really bad for Democrats and especially for black people. We're going back to the pre Civil Rights erayuekit
    • unless every blue state does the same, even steven no? Same rules for allwhatthefunk
    • The Voting Rights Act required states to have some districts that represented minority voters, who tend to vote for Democrats. That just got wiped out.yuekit
    • So like a lot of things the Supreme Court does, this specifically benefits Republicans. GOP-controlled states will now be able to eliminate any black politicalyuekit
    • representation, all the way from the local level to the national level in Congress. And it seems like they intend to do exactly that.yuekit
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