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That could change, however, if the court removes the guardrails to redistricting that it endorsed as recently as two years ago.
Indeed, if the conservative majority either nullifies the redistricting provision of the law or makes it much more difficult to enforce,
Democrats could lose as many as 19 congressional seats, putting control of the House effectively out of reach for the foreseeable future.
Nina Totenberg, NPR News, Washington.
Once considered the jewel in the crown of the civil rights movement, the Voting Rights Act has been largely dismembered since 2013.
contending that it unconstitutionally discriminates based on race.
Nina Totenberg, NPR News, Washington.
Conversion therapy promoted by some conservative Christian groups is banned for minors by half the states.
and staunchly opposed as harmful for minors by every major medical association.
But today, lawyers for a Colorado therapist will tell the justices that because she uses only talk therapy, banning the practice violates the Constitution's free speech guarantee.
Last term, the high court upheld state laws that banned the use of hormones and other measures to help minors change their sex.
Today, the shoe is on the other foot, so to speak, with a different group of states contending that they banned conversion therapy because it doesn't work and has proven harmful to minors.
Nina Totenberg, NPR News, Washington.
Supporters of conversion therapy contend that it succeeds in curing a person's attraction to the same sex, in other words, making a gay person straight, and similarly, curing a person's desire to change their gender identity.
And they argue that barring licensed therapists from using
conversion therapy when it's purely talk therapy violates the First Amendment right to free speech.
But half the states have enacted these bans, and every major medical association opposes the therapy on grounds that it leads to deep depression and suicidal thoughts in minors.
Nina Totenberg, NPR News, Washington.
The court's docket includes many muscular assertions of presidential power, assertions that likely will have a willing audience at a court dominated by a majority more conservative than at any time since the early 1930s.