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I'm Sam Sanders in for Shemita Basu.

Today, how voting rights are changing in America.

At the end of April, the Supreme Court issued a ruling that significantly weakened the Voting Rights Act,

one of the most consequential pieces of civil rights legislation in American history.

The SCOTUS ruling made it easier for states to legally draw voting maps that reduce the voting power of black voters and other minority groups.

In response, many Republican officials across the South quickly moved to redraw their districts.

A handful of southern states controlled by Republicans are scrambling to redraw their congressional

maps in the wake of a landmark Supreme Court ruling that changes the Voting Rights Act.

Several red states are now pushing to eliminate majority black districts.

Now Louisiana Republicans are trying to push through a new map, creating at least one more Republican-leaning district.

Tennessee lawmakers passed a new congressional map yesterday, dividing up the state's lone majority black district.

Tonight, Alabama is set to become the latest state to redraw congressional maps in favor of Republicans.

Despite protests from Democratic lawmakers and members of the public.

While state leaders say they're simply realigning maps with political reality.

And many black voters we met fear their district will be wiped off the map.

It's difficult to convey the enormity of what the Voting Rights Act did, and it is very difficult

to predict what its demise will do to our politics.

That's Adam Serber.

He's a staff writer at the Atlantic, and he has been covering race and American democracy

for years.

We asked Adam to come on the show to talk about the Voting Rights Act and the impact of the

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