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It is true that the major provisions of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 were declared invalid by the Supreme Court in the Shelby County V. Holder case in 2013, which sparked a wave of new state laws aimed at restricting the ability of poor people of all races to vote.
Referring to Shelby County v. Holder
The Supreme Court of the United States made a significant ruling in Shelby County V. Holder concerning the constitutionality of provisions of Voting Rights Act of the 1965: Sec 5 (which mandates that some states and local governments obtain federal preclearance before making any changes to their voting laws or practices) and Section 4(b), which includes the coverage formula which determines which jurisdictions seem to be subject to preclearance based on their historical voting patterns.
The Supreme Court ruled Section 4(b) unconstitutional by a margin of 5 to 4 because the coverage methodology relied on information that was more than 40 years old and hence no longer relevant to current needs. Due to the federalism & equal state sovereignty legal principles, this made it an impermissible burden.
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