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A new U.S. Supreme Court decision is expected to reshape American politics. In a six to three ruling,

the conservative majority is stopping states from using race to draw voting districts

that help minority communities pick their preferred candidates. In other words, they gutted the

Voting Rights Act. Specifically, the High Court was looking at a case involving Louisiana's congressional

map. That state drew two of its six U.S. House districts to have mostly black voters.

Civil rights activists said the majority black districts were necessary for the state to meet the requirements of the

Voting Rights Act. But a group who described themselves as non-African American voters sued to

challenge the state's map, arguing that considering race at all was a form of race-based

discrimination. And most high court

justices agreed. So this decision calls into question dozens of other majority black, majority

Hispanic, and majority Asian voting districts that other states have drawn as a way of obeying

the Voting Rights Act around the country. And it means states will now be able to split up,

for example, a community of

black voters into multiple districts, so white voters will end up becoming the majority in every area.

Civil rights activists say this ruling effectively killed the decades-long effort to promote

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