Supreme Court kicks off "gerrymandering arms race" with Voting Right Act decision

"The country's most important civil rights law no longer effectively exists, and that's going to have ramifications on American democracy for a very long time," Mother Jones correspondent Ari Berman says of the Supreme Court's recent 6-3 decision rejecting key principles of the 1965 Voting Rights Act.

Since the court issued its ruling last week, Republican-controlled states have begun to redraw their voting maps in a "gerrymandering arms race" that "could lead to the largest drop in Black representation since the Jim Crow era," says Berman.

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