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Congress’s 1982 amendment to VRA Section 2 permits claims based on voting practices that are “not equally open” to racial minorities.

The government majority approved the amendment on Wednesday, causing fissures among even the ruling party.

Fleet, who became pregnant when she was 15 after she started seeing an older man, said the amendments could "finally offer protection" for children and mothers.

SWR said it was in a transitional arrangement and subject to amendments.

The government was directed to initiate the required legislative amendments, he said.