Voting Rights Act 2024. The supreme court’s surprising decision on thursday to effectively reaffirm the remaining powers of the 1965 voting rights act has halted, at least for the. New laws on the books since the supreme court gutted the voting rights act.

Republicans don’t want women to vote. But for decades, really since its inception, the voting rights act has also been under legal assault, with court decisions hollowing out key provisions of the act.