Is the Voting Rights Act nearly dead?

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

49% : Throughout its history, private citizens have used the law to challenge racial discrimination at the polls.
49% : Yes, the law is "a go-to tool to strike down state laws regulating voting and congressional maps."
48% : Monday's ruling is "quite a seachange in the way that everyone -- Congress, the courts, plaintiffs, and even defendants -- have thought" about how the law would be enforced, ACLU's Sophia Lin Lakin told Bloomberg Law.
43% : A federal appeals court on Monday voted to "drastically weaken" the law, The New York Times reported, saying that only the federal government can bring challenges to racially discriminatory state and local election rules under the act, a decision that would "effectively bar private citizens and civil rights groups" from filing lawsuits to protect voting rights.
42% : That's not what the law says.

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