Congress passed the 1965 Voting Rights Act because “the Democrat party at the time, especially in the South, were racially gerrymandering districts to disenfranchise Black voters.” President Lyndon Johnson speaks in the rotunda of the Capitol in Washington, before signing the Voting Rights Act, Aug. 6, 1965. (AP)

President Lyndon B. Johnson marked the signing of the Voting Rights Act in 1965 along with Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Now, more than 60 years later, experts say the law's protections have been weakened by the U.

The Supreme Court’s latest decision prohibiting race-based redistricting has galvanized civil rights leaders to organize a new voting rights movement, channeling 1965 Selma activism. States controlled by Republicans,

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David Brooks of The Atlantic and Jonathan Capehart of MS NOW join Amna Nawaz to discuss the week in politics, including fallout from the third alleged assassination attempt on Trump, another indictment of a former FBI director and a consequential Supreme Court ruling.

After the Kangaroo Supreme Court stripped away key sections of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, MAGA influencer and resident scumbag Steve Bannon said the South was the people who had been oppressed because of the Voting Rights Act,

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