Federal Appeals Court Ruling Could Gut Voting Rights Act " American Greatness

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

47% : Politico reports that the ruling by the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals declared that only the federal government is allowed to sue under a key section of the civil rights law, not private citizens or civil rights groups, which had used the law to do so in the past.
44% : The appellate court's ruling stated that there is no "private right of action" for Section 2 of the VRA, which forbids voting practices that allegedly discriminate based on race.
43% : In 2022, a similar ruling by a lower-court judge came to a similar conclusion that he could not decide on the case itself because there was no private right of action.

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