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With supreme court ruling, Republicans able to marginalize Black political power
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Decision gives mapmakers in Republican states power to crack districts into pieces and dilute votes into oblivion The Voting Rights Act was a political peace compact written in John Lewis’s blood.The Callais v Landry decision by the US supreme court, which set aside much of section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, whitewashed that blood from history, along with that of thousands of other Americans who fought segregationist white supremacists at lunch counters and bus stations and courthouses for political equality. Continue reading...
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