Supreme Court decision on VRA ‘sent us backwards in time’: Booker

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Senator Cory Booker asserts that the recent Supreme Court ruling on Louisiana's congressional district configurations represents a regression in civil rights. He labels the court's decision a significant setback for the Voting Rights Act.

Democratic Sen. Cory Booker (N.J.) said Sunday that the Supreme Court sent the country “backwards in time” by declaring Louisiana’s addition of a second majority-Black congressional district an unconstitutional racial gerrymander. The high court ruled last month, in a 6-3 decision along ideological lines, that Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 only…