Federal Court Guts Enforcement of Voting Rights Act in “Catastrophic” Ruling

“This ruling is a travesty for democracy,” said ACLU lawyer Sophia Lin Lakin.

On Monday, a conservative three-judge panel on the United State’s most right-wing federal court struck down the primary enforcement mechanism of the Voting Rights Act in a ruling that experts are saying would be “catastrophic” for voting rights across the country if upheld. In a 2-1 ruling, the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that private litigants, like voting and civil rights groups...

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