{"id":150283,"date":"2026-05-01T15:17:20","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T23:17:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/05\/01\/alito-claims-to-update-voting-rights-act-law-kagan-says-he-destroyed-it\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T15:17:20","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T23:17:20","slug":"alito-claims-to-update-voting-rights-act-law-kagan-says-he-destroyed-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/05\/01\/alito-claims-to-update-voting-rights-act-law-kagan-says-he-destroyed-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Alito Claims to ‘Update’ Voting Rights Act Law. Kagan Says He Destroyed It."},"content":{"rendered":"

Under Justice Samuel Alito Jr.’s “updated” framework, the test for proving voter dilution under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act is “nearly insuperable,” Justice Elena Kagan wrote in dissent.<\/p>\n

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Under Justice Samuel Alito Jr.’s “updated” framework, the test for proving voter dilution under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act is “nearly insuperable,” Justice Elena Kagan wrote in dissent.<\/p>\n

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Under Justice Samuel Alito Jr.’s “updated” framework, the test for proving voter dilution under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act is “nearly insuperable,” Justice Elena Kagan wrote in dissent. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Under Justice Samuel Alito Jr.’s “updated” framework, the test for proving voter dilution under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act is “nearly insuperable,” […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":150284,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-150283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-law-com"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/legal-news-Qc2nM5.jpg?fit=767%2C505&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150283\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/150284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}