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The Voting Rights Act Is Dead. Here’s a New Model for Black Politics.

Alito's opinion moved 'the law back toward a simpler and more constitutionally sound principle: Citizens should be treated as individuals'

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Left / center-leftThe Voting Rights Act Is Dead. Here’s a New Model for Black Politics.

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Right / center-rightVoting Rights Act never mandated racial districts

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WNDNews report · May 25, 7:43 PM

Voting Rights Act never mandated racial districts

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Alito's opinion moved 'the law back toward a simpler and more constitutionally sound principle: Citizens should be treated as individuals'

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The New RepublicNews report · May 25, 10:00 AM

The Voting Rights Act Is Dead. Here’s a New Model for Black Politics.

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The fallout from Louisiana v. Callais has been nothing short of tragic, with terrible echoes of the past. As Reconstruction ended in 1877, states in the South either killed, expelled, or us...

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