Supreme Court ruling in Arizona case will be another front in the voting rights wars
By Ariane de Vogue, CNN Supreme Court Reporter
Updated 7:40 AM ET, Wed June 2, 2021
The battle lines have been drawn in the voting rights wars as several Republican-led states consider ever restrictive laws and Democrats fight a frantic battle in courts to combat what President Joe Biden has called an "assault on democracy."
Now, within the next few weeks, the Supreme Court will enter the melee and weigh in on the scope of the Voting Rights Act in a way that could bolster efforts by Republicans in states like Georgia and Texas to limit access to the polls.
The decision will come down in the last turbulent weeks of the court's term, and supporters of voting rights fear the new conservative 6-3 majority will pick up where the court left off eight years ago and gut another provision of the historic law.
It's the first time the justices have considered the scope of the Voting Rights Act as it applies to the denial of the vote since Chief Justice John Roberts wrote a 5-4 opinion in 2013 effectively invalidating Section 5 of the law. That section required states with a history of discrimination to obtain federal approval before making any changes to their voting laws.
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