The Supreme Court on Wednesday gave Republicans a freer hand to redraw election maps without decades-old guardrails put in place to protect representation by racial minorities.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday gutted a key provision of the Voting Rights Act - making it harder for minorities to challenge ⁠electoral maps ⁠as racially discriminatory under the landmark civil ...

“The Voting Rights Act is—or, now more accurately, was—‘one of the most consequential, efficacious, and amply justified exercises of federal legislative power in our Nation’s history,’” she wrote.