The Voting Rights Act has already been somewhat neutered. Shelby County deactivated what's called the preclearance regime. The court has weakened the safeguards against voting laws that are enacted with racist intent. And at some point, we don't really have any safeguards against racism in our elections at all.
According to Vox’s Ian Millhiser (and no, he hasn’t forgotten they just overturned Roe).
This episode was produced by Siona Peterous, edited by Amina Al-Sadi, fact-checked by Victoria Chamberlin and Laura Bullard with help from Miles Bryan, engineered by Paul Robert Mounsey and Efim Shapiro, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.
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