Zach Montellaro

ANXIOUS ANNIVERSARY — The Voting Rights Act was signed into law 60 years ago this week. What the law will look like when it reaches its 61st anniversary next year is a big question.

The case could strike a major blow to the landmark civil rights-era law.

The case centers on Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, the key provision of the law that broadly prohibits discrimination in voting practices on the basis of race or creed.

Several of the court’s conservatives appeared hostile to the traditional understanding of the civil rights law.

Wednesday’s Supreme Court decision leaves the landmark civil rights law on the books — but in name only, prominent legal scholars and the liberal justices argue.

Zach Montellaro A long-held goal of the conservative legal movement came to fruition on Wednesday: The gutting of the Voting Rights Act.

Aaron Pellish and Zach Montellaro President Donald Trump has ousted the remaining commissioners from a bipartisan federal agency charged