The impact is already being felt across the south, and so far it's exclusively the south, primarily in the former Confederate States. You see decisions being made to eliminate African American representatives from Congressional districts. Justice Kagan, writing for the dissent, said, quote, the Voting Rights act was born of the literal blood of Union soldiers and civil rights mortars. (15:02–15:08)
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Asserts that there are efforts to remove African American representatives from Congressional districts.
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