Ruling has gutted provision intended to prevent racial discrimination in voting. Plus, oil tops $126 a barrel to reach highest level since 2022<\/p>\n
Don\u2019t already get First Thing in your inbox? Sign up here<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n Good morning.<\/p>\n The US supreme court has gutted a major section of the Voting Rights Act<\/a> through a landmark decision on Louisiana\u2019s congressional map, in a major upheaval in US civil rights law that threatens to weaken the voting power of minorities.<\/p>\n How have lawmakers reacted?<\/strong> Terri Sewell and Shomari Figures, who are now at risk of losing their seats in Alabama\u2019s Black congressional districts, have decried the decision<\/a> as sending the nation \u201cbackwards\u201d.<\/p>\n How did the ruling come to pass?<\/strong> It is the culmination of justices John Roberts and Samuel Alito\u2019s joint campaign to roll back civil rights legislation.<\/a><\/p>\n How could midterm maps be changed by redistricting?<\/strong> While the supreme court decision leaves little time to redraw maps before the midterms, here is what midterm maps could look like<\/a> if both parties achieve all their current redistricting ambitions.<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Ruling has gutted provision intended to prevent racial discrimination in voting. Plus, oil tops $126 a barrel to reach highest level since 2022 Don\u2019t already get First Thing in your inbox? Sign up here Good morning. The US supreme court has gutted a major section of the Voting Rights Act through a landmark decision on … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72859\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}