Voting Rights Act

[voh-ting rahyts akt]

noun

U.S. Government.

1. a law enacted in 1965 that prohibited racially discriminatory voting practices, such as poll taxes and literacy tests, appointed federal examiners to facilitate voter registration among members of minority groups, and established federal oversight over election administration. VRA

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Gerrymandering aside, a pending Supreme Court decision that could gut the Voting Rights Act might deliver Republicans well over a dozen seats, greatly increasing the odds of the GOP maintaining power.

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On the domestic front, however, he was the force behind the Great Society, including the creation of Medicaid and Medicare and the establishment of the Voting Rights Act and Civil Rights Acts of 1964 and 1968, all laws he was able to pass via bullying and manipulation.

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Adding to those concerns is the possibility that the Supreme Court’s conservative majority could weaken a key provision of the landmark Voting Rights Act and limit lawmakers’ ability to consider race when redrawing maps.

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Some experts think the new maps are unlikely to raise strong Voting Rights Act challenges.

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Last month, conservative Supreme Court justices suggested in a hearing that they were considering reining in a key part of the landmark 1965 Voting Rights Act that prohibits voting practices or procedures that discriminate on the basis of race, color, or membership in a language minority group.

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