Justice Alito's Supreme Court ruling that weakened the Voting Rights Act relied on questionable racial voter turnout data, according to analysis by the Guardian and reporting from Democracy Docket. The faulty data undermines the legal foundation of a 6-3 decision that eliminated key Section 2 protections, making it easier to challenge voting districts created to ensure Black representation. The immediate consequence: Republican legislatures in states like Tennessee are already redrawing maps to consolidate or eliminate majority-Black districts, which previously would have faced Section 2 challenges. The framing of 'shredded' or 'hollowed out' slightly overstates the scope—the ruling narrowed VRA enforcement rather than eliminating it entirely, but the practical effect is significant weakening of one of the law's core mechanisms.