Supreme Court docket guidelines on Voting Rights Act, putting down Louisiana map

The Supreme Court docket declared Louisiana’s addition of a second majority-Black congressional district an unconstitutional racial gerrymander on Wednesday, a 6-3 determination alongside ideological traces that weakens a central provision of the Voting Rights Act. Louisiana’s authorized saga thrust the state into the middle of conservatives’ push to curtail Part 2 of the landmark voting legislation, which has […]