Demise of Voting Rights Act already hurting minority voters across the country

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1. I've been trying to understand how one could possibly one could get by the second and third preconditions.

“To satisfy the second and third preconditions—politically cohesive voting by the minority and racial-bloc voting by the majority—the plaintiffs must provide an analysis that controls for party affiliation, showing that voters engage in racial-bloc voting that cannot be explained by partisan affiliation.”

Gerrymandering by party affiliation had already been declared legal. I have a hard time seeing that outside of thought experiments how a population can vote as a racial bloc without there being partisan affiliation. It seems now that any racial gerrymandering is not just allowed but cannot even be reviewed unless the plaintiffs show that it also cannot also be explained by the political goal of less voting power for the opposing party. This decision is powerfully wrong and should be a call to political action for many of us.