60 years later, Voting Rights Act protections for minority voters face new threats

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After a long and complicated legal battle, St. Francisville ultimately agreed that the town had violated Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act and switched to alderperson elections with multiple districts. Supreme Court keeps a pause for now on a ruling that weakens the Voting Rights Act The Supreme Court has extended a pause, for now, on a lower court ruling that struck down a key tool for protecting minority voters under the Voting Rights Act in seven states. 60 years after Bloody Sunday in Alabama, elusive racial progress in Selma Events in Selma, Ala. six decades ago helped win support for the 1965 Voting Rights Act. If a majority rules that way, presidential administrations could effectively decide when the Voting Rights Act is enforced. “If there is no private right of action under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, the Voting Rights Act is basically dead,” Tolson says.