The Supreme Court on Monday ordered lower courts to reconsider a closely watched Voting Rights Act case brought by Native American tribes, revisiting a ruling that limited how the Civil Rights-era law can be enforced.
The move comes after the justices recently weakened the law, sending back decisions involving North Dakota tribes and Mississippi redistricting disputes tied to who can bring Section 2 claims.
At issue is an appeals court ruling that only the federal government—not voters or advocacy groups—can sue under the law, breaking with decades of precedent.
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson dissented, while the court’s conservative majority has raised the bar for future voting rights claims by requiring proof of intentional discrimination.
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