Congress wrote and passed the 1965 law "because of the Democrat party at the time, especially in the South, who were racially gerrymandering districts to disenfranchise Black voters," said U.S. Rep.

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While Republican-led Southern states race to redo their congressional maps after the U.S. Supreme Court weakened the Voting Rights Act's protections against racial discrimination, the decision's ...