The Voting Rights Act over its six decades became one of the most consequential laws in the nation’s history, preventing discrimination against minorities at the ballot box and helping to elect thousands of Black and Hispanic representatives at all levels of government.

The U.S. Supreme Court examines on Wednesday moves by ⁠President ⁠Donald Trump's administration to strip humanitarian protections from ⁠hundreds of thousands of Haitian and Syrian immigrants, part of his signature immigration crackdown.