Yesterday, An appellate court upheld a lower court’s ruling in a 2-1 decision that private citizens and groups cannot sue under a statute that forbids discrimination in state and local elections laws. This affects states such as Missouri, Arkansas, Nebraska, Iowa, Minnesota, North and South Dakota.
A key provision of the Voting Rights Act that gave Black and brown voters more power at the ballot box through congressional districting.
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The federal judges ruling means that private citizens and groups such as the NAACP cannot sue over voter suppression.
They overturned decades of precedence that protected voters of color. This decision will likely be appealed to the Supreme Court.
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Many believe this is a step to destroy the Voting Rights Act.
