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Home » Press Releases » Wisconsin Black Democrats: Chair condemns the Supreme Court’s decision to undermine the Voting Rights Act
MILWAUKEE - Yesterday, the United States Supreme Court sided with a claim from a group of non-black Louisiana voters that their state’s second-majority black district was unconstitutional and intentionally discriminatory despite Black Americans making up one third of their state’s population. This ruling drastically undermines Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act which has historically outlawed...