Supreme Court Limits Preclearance Provision of Voting Rights Act

The Supreme Court today limited use of the “preclearence” requirements of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

Hopefully I’ll have more details when the actual text of the decision is up later today.

I also wonder if Texas might re-institute the 2011 redistricting map, which was struck down by the San Antonio district court largely on the ground the Supreme Court just invalidated.

SCOTUSblog has more.

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