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SCOTUS guts key part of the Voting Rights Act. How will that shape future elections?

Here & Now‘s Indira Lakshmanan speaks with NAACP general counsel Kristen Clarke about how future elections may be shaped by Wednesday’s decision by the Supreme Court to gut a key part of the Civil Rights-era Voting Rights Act of 1965, which protected minority voting rights.

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