From the New York Times, I'm Michael Barbaro.

This is the Daily.

On Wednesday, the Supreme Court dealt what may be a final blow to the landmark voting rights act

in a ruling that will supercharge the already partisan battle

to control the country's election maps.

Today, Adam Liptack on the legal logic of the ruling and Nick Koreseniti on how the decision

will reshape American democracy.

Music on how the decision will reshape American democracy. It's Thursday, April 30th.

Adam, this was a very big ruling on a very big piece of our history.

Yeah, the Supreme Court did further and in a sense final damage to the Voting Rights Act of 1965,

probably the greatest legislative achievement of the civil rights movement,

which was meant to protect minority voting power.

So it was meant to stop southern officials from using all kinds of methods from violence to poll taxes,

to literacy tests, to grandfather clauses, to keep individual black voters from the voting booth.

But it also meant to ensure that minority voters as a group had the collective power,

or at least the opportunity, to elect candidates of their choice.

Right.

At the time, President Johnson called it a triumph for freedom.

That's right.

And it worked.

Voter registration and voter turnout numbers in southern states went from single digits for minority voters

to sometimes achieving levels higher than those of white voters. But this gave rise

...