A federal appeals panel has made enforcing the Voting Rights Act harder in 7 states

The editor

A demonstrator carrying a sign that says "VOTING RIGHTS NOW" walks across the Frederick Douglass Memorial Bridge in 2022 in Washington, D.C.

After a challenge by Republican officials in North Dakota, a federal appeals panel struck down a key way of enforcing the Voting Rights Act’s protections against racial discrimination in seven states.

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