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Minnesota Senate President Bobby Joe Champion sits at his desk in his office in the State Capitol complex, March 11, 2024, in St. Paul, Minn. Champion, a Democrat from Minneapolis, is the lead Senate author of the proposed Minnesota Voting Rights Act. Minnesota is one of several states moving to enact state-level protections to plug gaps that the courts have opened up in the landmark federal Voting Rights Act. (AP Photo/Steve Karnowski)
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — An appeals court ruling that weakened a key part of the Voting Rights Act is spurring lawmakers in several states to enact state-level protections to plug gaps that the ruling opened in the landmark federal law aimed at prohibiting racial discrimination in voting.
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