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with Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg writing that the court is essentially saying the Voting Rights Act has been so successful that it should be ended.

But Justice Ginsburg said discrimination still exists in voting laws ranging from racial gerrymandering to changing representation formulas — what she called “second-generation barriers.”

She said this was proved by the number of changes that the Justice Department rejected as discriminatory, acting under its Voting Rights Act powers.

This irritates the crap out of me. Some of the "changes" that they have rejected have been shown in court NOT to be discriminatory. That some agency says so should not be taken as fact. Courts are deciders of fact but bureaucrats should not be. And in fact it still doesn't address the main point to me. Sure there may still be a need but it shouldn't be justifiable to override other constitutional issues over data that's 40 + years old. If there is still a need then have it set for todays facts.