SCOTUS punts on the Voting Rights Act, leaving its protections in a fragile limbo
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Two Supreme Court orders in Turtle Mountain Band v. Howe and Board of Election Commissioners v. NAACP punt on whether the Voting Rights Act can be enforced by private lawsuits, signaling that the Court’s hostility to the VRA persists and leaving the Act’s remaining provisions largely inert as it sits in limbo while lower courts revisit Gorsuch’s theory.
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