The Supreme Court crippled a key provision of the Voting Rights Act, a law aimed at protecting minority voters from discrimination, on Tuesday.
Under the act, certain states and jurisdictions are prohibited from changing their voting laws without approval from the federal government. That’s because those states have a history of voter discrimination, and the law tries to combat that.
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