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Home » Press Releases » Wisconsin Legislative Black Caucus: Condemns Supreme Court ruling on Voting Rights Act
MILWAUKEE - Today, the Supreme Court of the United States narrowed Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act by a 6-3 majority. For decades, this critical provision has outlawed discrimination by protecting Black and other minority communities' right to vote and fair representation. Despite Black Americans making up a third of Louisiana’s population, the majority ruling not only made a second m...