Supreme Court hollows out a landmark law that had protected minority voting rights for 6 decades
The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that a Louisiana congressional district map, which gave the state its second Black representative, was an unconstitutional gerrymander. The decision has left voting and civil rights advocates fearful of the impact on minority communities.
The U.S. Supreme Court has knocked out a major pillar of the Voting Rights Act, a landmark law that protected minority voting rights for six decades. The court's conservative majority ruled that a Louisiana congressional district map was an unconstitutional gerrymander because it took race into account. The map had given Louisiana its second Black representative to Congress. Voting rights experts say the ruling leaves the Voting Rights Act a shell of what it had been and will allow political mapmakers to undermine minority representation. The decision comes more than a decade after the court undermined another key tenet of the law, leading to restrictive voting laws in several states. The ruling is likely to have far-reaching consequences for minority communities across the United States.
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