By now, you've surely heard that the Supreme Court just gutted the Voting Rights Act.

Vox's Supreme Correspondent Ian Milheiser says there's two ways of looking at this decision

from our highest court. The more cynical answer is just that this is the most conservative

Supreme Court we have had since at least the 1930s. It is also the most partisan court that

we've had ever. And like, the makeup of the

justices matters here. We have six justices now who just disagree with the Voting Rights Act.

And less cynical, Ian? The slightly less cynical answer here is that the Republican justices' view

is that, I mean, there's not nothing to this view,

is that America is less racist in 26 than it was in 1965.

Either way, the states are already gerrymandering in response and just six months before our

midterm elections, the Supreme Court's

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Supreme Court on Wednesday in a case called Louisiana v. Kalae struck down a Louisiana voting map.

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