US EditionSupreme Court takes up Republican attack on Voting Rights Act in case over Black representation
The case questions protections under the Voting Rights Act as Republicans seek to limit race-based redistricting, with Louisiana having added a second majority Black district after prior rulings.
- The Supreme Court is hearing a case on Louisiana's congressional map, which initially had only one Black majority district out of six districts in a state that is one-third Black.
- After a ruling that Alabama's map likely violated the Voting Rights Act, Louisiana added a second Black majority district, but the Supreme Court wants to consider whether creating that district violates the 14th or 15th Amendments.
- The case could lead to restricting racial discrimination claims in redistricting and giving state legislatures more latitude in drawing districts.
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U.S. Supreme Court Takes Up Republican Attack on Voting Rights
A Republican attack on a core provision of the Voting Rights Act that's designed to protect racial minorities comes to the Supreme Court this week, more than a decade after the justices knocked out another pillar of the 60-year-old law. The post U.S. Supreme Court Takes Up Republican Attack on Voting Rights in Louisiana Case Over Black Representation appeared first on Mississippi Free Press.
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Louisiana: Voting Rights Act 'balkanizes' competing racial factions
(The Center Square) − Louisiana will argue on Wednesday at the U.S. Supreme Court that part of the Voting Rights Act is “is inconsistent with the letter and spirit of the Constitution.”
Supreme Court takes up Republican attack on Voting Rights Act in case over Black representation (World)
A Republican attack on a core provision of the Voting Rights Act that is designed to protect racial minorities comes to the Supreme Court this week, more than a decade after the justices knocked out another pillar of the 60-year-old law. In arguments Wednesday, lawyers for Louisiana and the Trump ad...
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