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The Supreme Court avoids taking up a fight over Voting Rights Act enforcement for now
After recently weakening the Voting Rights Act, the Supreme Court avoided for now taking up a legal question that may severely limit enforcement of the law's remaining protections for minority voters.
![In hearings on the case last December, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson suggested that this political destruction of the independent agencies Congress had established to provide nonpartisan expertise on issues like how to regulate pollutants would hurt the country.
"[H]aving a president come in and fire all the scientists, and the doctors, and the economists and the PhDs, and replacing them with loyalists and people who don't know anything is actually not in the best interest of the citizens of the United States," she said.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:wjq4sy2q7efirropxrimfptf/bafkreiff3okfrh5muyrvkxef554zgxh2goxhflnfggu2ykm2ysbea7zbru)
