The Supreme Court has chipped away at the Voting Rights Act for years. Will this case be the final blow?

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

58% : But almost immediately, a group of self-identified non-Black voters brought a new lawsuit.
57% : Most notably, the Supreme Court in 2013 struck down the part of the VRA that determined which jurisdictions had a history of discrimination and needed to get federal permission before changing their voting laws.
54% : " A landmark law meets a constitutional challenge The case centers on Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, the key provision of the law that broadly prohibits discrimination in voting practices on the basis of race or creed.
50% : But it's unclear if the Supreme Court will rule quickly enough for state legislatures to act before primary contests, which start as early as March in some states.
49% : A divided panel of federal judges ruled in favor of the new challengers, finding that race played a primary role in drawing the lines and that the new map unconstitutionally discriminated against the non-Black voters.
45% : President Donald Trump has been pushing red states across the country to redesign their congressional maps as Democrats fight to retake control over the House, leading California to counter with its own push that voters will decide on next month.
45% : Supporters say the requirement of what are called majority-minority districts prevents state legislatures from diluting minorities' voting power by either "cracking" communities -- scattering minority voters into numerous white-dominated (and frequently Republican-dominated) districts -- or "packing" districts by trying to fit as many minority voters into as few districts as possible so they end up underrepresented in the House or state legislature.
43% : " Much of the conservative legal world -- from Trump's Department of Justice to a string of GOP-led states and conservative advocacy organizations -- quickly piled on, arguing the "results"-based test of election outcomes, which has guided Voting Rights Act enforcement for decades, is no longer tenable.
37% : A group of Black voters sued, and a district court judge found in 2022 that the map likely violated Section 2 of Voting Rights Act by diluting the power of Black voters.
37% : "In short, this Court's Section 2 jurisprudence should account for the fact that, today, a State's failure to create a compact majority-minority district, even where demographically possible, is far more likely to reflect political motives than racial ones," Trump's Justice Department wrote.

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