What Happened to the Voting Rights Act?
The 1787 Project - A podcast by Justin Dyer
The short answer of what happened to the Voting Rights Act is that the Supreme Court in Shelby County v. Holder (2013) held that one of the main sections of the Voting Rights Act was unconstitutional. Before getting to the longer answer of why the Court came to that conclusion, we will pick up a theoretical background question: is the United States a republic or a democracy?
