AXIOS (Andrew Pantazi) - SCOTUS' voting rights decision deals big down-ballot blow
Statehouses, county commissions and city halls — not the halls of Washington — will absorb the heaviest blow from the Voting Rights Act's collapse. Why it matters: Most Voting Rights Act lawsuits have targeted local and state governments: the entities that decide what's taught in schools, who polices the streets and which neighborhoods get sidewalks. - Those suits typically fall under Section 2 of the Act, which lets minority voters challenge maps and election rules that weaken their voting power. The latest: The U.S. Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act with a Wednesday decision that essentially gives local and state bodies carte blanche to ignore minority voters as long as it serves some other purpose, like partisan…
