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  "path": "/online/2026/05/04/the-second-redemption-voting-rights-act/",
  "publishedAt": "2026-05-04T16:03:24.000Z",
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  "textContent": "The Voting Rights Act is dead. The law, very likely the most consequential civil rights statute Congress has ever passed, died on April 29, 2026. It was not a natural death. Congress did not repeal it, having concluded, for example, that it was no longer needed. On the contrary, Congress has reauthorized the statute four […]",
  "title": "The Second ‘Redemption’"
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