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The six parties that took part in the debate represent parties with clear evidence of electoral support in Caerphilly, taking account of past elections there and Wales opinion polls.

Too often, he said, the civil rights law has been “deployed as a form of electoral race-based affirmative action to undo a state’s constitutional pursuit of political ends.”

If the court answers yes, the ruling would considerably weaken Voting Rights Act protections that have allowed minorities to challenge electoral systems and maps as discriminatory.

From my perspective as a scholar of U.S. federal courts and electoral systems, this case represents the collision of decades of Supreme Court decisions on race, redistricting and the Voting Rights Act.

However, he boycotted the rerun, demanding electoral reforms.