SCOTUS could gut the Voting Rights Act even further.

In November of 2017, Latasha Holloway sued the City of Virginia Beach, arguing that the at-large city council elections illegally diluted the voting power of minorities. She found it peculiar that a city made up of 31.6% minority voters had only ever elected six minority candidates to the City Council since the at-large system was put in place 50 years prior. Just a few years later, the district court ruled in Latasha’s favor, agreeing that the city’s at-large election method violated Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act because it denied Hispanics, African Americans, and Asians equal access to the political process — and ordered the city to adopt a new electoral system that complied with the Voting Rights Act. This monumental victory would ensure that minority voters would have their voices heard, and their candidates wouldn’t be crowded out by the white-majority voters who made up 70% of the population. <a href="https://ca-descano.medium.com/scotus-could-gut-the-voting-rights-act-even-further-5fd5d66308a7">Read More</a>