Laura Coates: 'Today six Justices all but threw away the Voting Rights Act of 1965'
All meaning has been erased from the Voting Rights Act of 1965. That's what CNN Chief Legal Analyst and Anchor, Laura Coates, is arguing. Laura spent years as a career prosecutor in the DOJ's Civil Rights Division. And she warns minority voting power will be diluted and efforts to change that will now be "insurmountable" to prove.
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