Just shy of actually overturning the Voting Rights Act, the NAACP ruling makes enforcement of the law functionally impossible by preventing individuals from filing lawsuits for said enforcement. This means that only the Department of Justice can file these suits moving forward, despite the fact that the DOJ brought forth only one such suit between 2016 and 2020.

While Biden (2023) already demonstrated the Supreme Court’s power to veto actions of the federal government, Loper goes a step further — overruling the landmark Chevron (1984), stripping federal agencies of the expectation that courts will defer to their expert interpretation of ambiguous laws, and granting the courts the power to decide all matters of minutia, including, as in Loper, who should pay for the cost of federal observers on fishing vessels.