GOP Could Pick Up Roughly 19 House Seats After SCOTUS Guts VRA

Nineteen of these changes are directly tied to the potential loss of Section 2 protections.

The SCOTUS ruling will prompt many states to redraw maps ahead of November’s elections.

“Extremely gratified to see this decision we’ve been waiting for! I was proud to co-author the brief for the United States as amicus in this important case, perhaps one of the most important developments in decades in Voting Rights Act jurisprudence!” wrote U.S. Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division Harmeet Dhillon on X, celebrating the Supreme Court gutting the VRA.

“The Voting Rights Act of 1965 was enacted to ban racial discrimination in voting. Rather than enforce that