Voting Rights Act, Louisiana and Supreme Court
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Democrats could lose up to 19 House seats if the provision known as Section 2 of the voting rights law is struck down.
Justice Brett Kavanaugh argued that the Voting Rights Act must sunset after an undetermined amount of time. Justice Amy Coney Barrett proposed imposing a limit on Congress’s power to remedy discrimination — one that the Court has applied in nonvoting cases — on election-related laws like the VRA.