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The 2-1 decision by a panel of the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals based in St. Louis found that only the U.S. attorney general can enforce Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, which requires political maps to include districts where minority populations’ preferred candidates can win elections.

A divided federal appeals court has found that private individuals and groups such as the NAACP do not have the ability to sue under a key section of the federal Voting Rights Act.

A federal ruling this week was only the latest in decades of legal challenges to a law that has shored up Black Americans’ political power.

The 2-1 decision by a panel of the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals based in St. Louis found that only the U.S. attorney general can enforce Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, which requires political maps to include districts where minority populations preferred candidates can win elections.

The 2-1 decision found that only the U.S. attorney general can enforce Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act.

The 2-1 decision found that only the U.S. attorney general can enforce Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act.

The 2-1 decision found that only the U.S. attorney general can enforce Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act.

A federal appeals court ruled that private individuals and groups like the NAACP do not have the ability to sue under a key section of the Voting Rights Act.

The 2-1 decision found that only the U.S. attorney general can enforce Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act.

The 2-1 decision found that only the U.S. attorney general can enforce Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act.