I'm Virginia Allen, and this is the Daily Scamal Top News.

First, there is day, June 8th.

Here are today's headlines.

We are kicking off today's show with some big news regarding a Supreme Court ruling.

Today the justices announced their decision on a case involving voting districts in Alabama.

The court ruled that recently redrawn voting districts in Alabama likely violate the Voting Rights Act.

The Voting Rights Act is a piece of federal legislation passed in 1965.

The law prohibits voting practices or procedures that discriminate against voters based on things like race or color.

Civil Rights activists argue that Alabama's voting map discriminates against black voters.

The Supreme Court has ruled in the activist's favor in a five-four decision.

Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Brett Kavanaugh sided with the court's three more liberal justices.

The state is about 27% black and has seven congressional districts, six of which are currently represented by Republicans.

I spoke with Heritage Foundation Senior Legal Fellow Hans von Spakowski about the case and he explained how it rose to the Supreme Court.

After the 2020 census, the state was sued and the challengers said, oh, your new plan is discriminatory because you have to put in two districts that are majority minority districts for black voters.

And Alabama fought that. They said, well, look, the only way you can draw up two districts like that is if race is the predominant factor you use in drawing boundary lines.

And that's prohibited by Supreme Court precedent, which it is.

Hans said in his legal opinion, the Supreme Court ruling today did not follow precedent.

Because Justice Alito pointed out in his dissent, actually what the court did was not follow their precedent on this.

They didn't follow the rules they have set out on this. And as he said, it sets the voting rights act on a very dangerous path.

Now, Alabama will have to redraw its voting map before next year's election.

And China have reached an agreement. According to US officials, Cuba has agreed to allow China to build an eavesdropping station on the island.

Cuba is a nation that needs cash and sources say that China has agreed to pay Cuba several billion dollars to build the spying facility.

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