The Supreme Court rule 6-3 in a decision that has implications for the scope of the landmark Voting Rights Act.
The court struck down the voting map as an unconstitutional racial gerrymander in a move that could make it harder for lawmakers to create majority-minority voting districts.
The Supreme Court in a 6-3 decision along ideological lines struck down the congressional map, which added a second majority-Black district.
The Supreme Court declared Louisiana’s addition of a second majority-Black congressional district an unconstitutional gerrymander on Wednesday, a 6-3 decision along ideological lines that weakens a central provision of the Voting Rights Act. Louisiana’s legal saga thrust the state into the center of conservatives’ push to curtail Section 2 of the landmark voting law, which…
The text of the Voting Rights Act specifically says minority populations have no collective right to representation equal to their share of the population. After 40 years of bad precedent, the Supreme Court finally returned to the original meaning of that text on Wednesday, bringing an end to an era of legalized racial gerrymandering. Before […]