Conservative Appeals Court Decision Aims To Gut The Voting Rights Act - RocketNews

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

47% : Such a change would make enforcement rare and subject to political control of state and federal government.
46% : With Republicans firmly opposed to the Voting Rights Act, the law would be moribund when they controlled state governments or the Department of Justice.
40% : This latest attempt to eviscerate the Voting Rights Act comes after Republicans in statehouses across the country enacted a wave of racially discriminatory legislative and congressional district maps following the 2020 census and the most conservative justices on the Supreme Court have invited legal efforts to kneecap the law.
37% : In the Monday ruling, appeals court judges David Stras, a Trump appointee, and Raymond Gruender, a George W. Bush appointee, affirmed Rudofsky's decision, arguing that the text of the Voting Rights Act did not provide a private right of action to sue to enforce the law.

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