The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 on April 29 to reinterpret Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, requiring plaintiffs to prove intentional racial discrimination rather than merely showing discriminatory effects — effectively gutting the law's primary enforcement tool for challenging racially discriminatory electoral maps. This reverses Congress's 1982 amendment which explicitly rejected an intent-only standard. The ruling will make it harder to block maps that dilute Black voting power and gives Republicans cover to redraw districts currently held by Democrats, potentially locking in GOP House control through the 2030s. Kagan's dissent argues only Congress has the right to repeal the law, not the Court.