SCOTUS' voting rights decision deals big down-ballot blow

Statehouses, county commissions and city halls — not the halls of Washington — will absorb the heaviest blow from the Voting Rights Act's collapse.Why it matters: Most Voting Rights Act lawsuits have targeted local and state governments: the entities that decide what's taught in schools, who polices the streets and which neighborhoods get sidewalks.Those suits typically fall under Section 2 of the Act, which lets minority voters challenge maps and election rules that weaken their voting power.Th...