Supreme Court sends closely watched Native American voting rights decision back to lower court
The justices sent Mississippi and North Dakota redistricting disputes back for review after a ruling that raised the bar for Section 2 claims.
- On Monday, the Supreme Court remanded two Voting Rights Act cases involving legislative maps in Mississippi and North Dakota, ordering lower courts to reconsider them in light of its recent Louisiana v. Callais ruling.
- These cases challenged whether private individuals and advocacy groups can sue to enforce Section 2 of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, an issue the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals previously ruled only the federal government could pursue.
- Since 1982, private plaintiffs have been party to 96.4% of Section 2 decisions, while the Department of Justice brought more than 40 cases, according to legal expert Ellen Katz, a professor at the University of Michigan Law School.
- Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson dissented from Monday's order, arguing the Court should have reversed the lower court decisions rather than remanding them, as the move leaves the "private right of action" question unresolved.
- The decision effectively allows the justices to sidestep the private enforcement question while the conservative majority's April ruling has already raised the bar for redistricting challenges, limiting the law's reach.
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