US appeals court rules against tool used to enforce Voting Rights Act

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

52% : The court stated that "[u]nder the modern test for implied rights of action, Congress must have both created an individual right and given private plaintiffs the ability to enforce it."
51% : Declining to look elsewhere to find an implied right of action, the court ultimately limited the protections afforded in Section 2 of the VRA by narrowing the pool of potential plaintiffs.
38% : He reasoned:[While] the Court has never directly addressed the existence of a private right of action under Section 2 ... it has repeatedly considered such cases, held that private rights of action exist under other sections of the VRA, and concluded in other VRA cases that a private right of action exists under Section 2.Last summer, the US Supreme Court court found in Allen v. Milligan that Alabama's legislature violated the voting rights of Black Alabamians by racially gerrymandering the state's congressional maps.

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