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A New Threat to the Voting Rights Act

Plus: Some thoughts on Nikki Haley

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KIM WEHLE: A New Threat to the Voting Rights Act.

A voting booth at the Gates of Heaven Synagogue on November 8, 2022 in Madison, Wisconsin. (Photo by Jim Vondruska/Getty Images)

LAST WEEK, A FEDERAL APPEALS COURT ruled in a 2-1 decision that there is no private cause of action under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (VRA). What this means is that only the Department of Justice—and not voters and other groups—can sue to challenge electoral maps that are gerrymandered to the disadvantage of racial minorities. Because most Section 2 cases are brought by private plaintiffs and not DOJ, the ruling, if left to stand, will make it much harder for courts in the seven states of the Eighth Circuit—Arkansas, Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, and South Dakota—to enforce what’s left of the VRA.

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THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN HISTORY owns a very special pair of red, white, and blue flip-flops. Republicans sold them at their 2004 convention to fuel their flip-flop attacks on then-Sen. John Kerry, the Democrat running against President George W. Bush.

I nominate Nikki Haley for her own Smithsonian exhibit. She may or may not be on track to wrest the 2024 Republican nomination from Donald Trump, but this much is clear: She’s already a museum-level flip-flopper. Flip-flops with five-inch heels, anyone?

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