Supreme Court strikes down Louisiana congressional map in ruling that could change Congress
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The justices determined that the state unconstitutionally racial gerrymandered, leaving room for other states to diminish power of districts made up of mostly minority voters.
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The Supreme Court on Wednesday struck down a Black majority congressional district in Louisiana, further weakening a key tool of the Voting Rights Act.
The Supreme Court on Wednesday limited the scope of a key Voting Rights Act provision that restricts how states draw districts affecting minority voters, constraining states' use of race as a factor when drawing congressional maps ahead of the 2026 midterms.
The Supreme Court invalidated Louisiana’s congressional map Wednesday ahead of the midterm elections, in a decision that reshaped legal protections for minority voters and could lead to further redistricting nationwide.
Although the court kept Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act intact, Wednesday's decision all but guts the landmark law that came out of the Civil Rights Movement and protected the collective voting power of racial minorities when political maps are redrawn.
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 6-3 Wednesday that Louisiana’s 2024 redistricting was unconstitutional because its map was drawn based on race without meeting the extremely limited and strictly-defined legal justifications for race-based redistricting.
The Supreme Court on Wednesday struck down Louisiana's voting map, finding that lawmakers had illegally used race when drawing up a new majority-Black district and potentially setting off a scramble in the middle of primary season as states consider drawing new maps.
The Supreme Court on Wednesday struck down a race-based redistricting map in Louisiana, ruling that the state's second black-majority district violates the Constitution.
The court, in a 6-3 decision along partisan lines, ruled that Louisiana's 2024 election map, which created a second majority-Black congressional district, was "an unconstitutional racial gerrymander."
Decision effectively guts major section of Voting Rights Act, the last remaining provision of 1965 civil rights law that prevents racial discrimination in voting
The Supreme Court has weakened a key tool of the Voting Rights Act that has helped root out racial discrimination in voting for more than half a century in a
In a major voting rights case, the Supreme Court struck down Louisiana’s congressional map, calling it an unconstitutional race-based gerrymander. This continues a decadelong trend of the high court reinterpreting the 1965 Voting Rights Act.
The Supreme Court on Wednesday struck down a Louisiana congressional map that a group of voters who describe themselves as “non-African American” had challenge…
A federal judge had forced Louisiana to create a second majority-black district in 2024 to comply with Section 2 of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, which restricts states from diluting minority votes.
The justices determined that the state unconstitutionally racial gerrymandered, leaving room for other states to diminish power of districts made up of mostly minority voters.
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