Conservative Justices Doubt Race’s Use in Voting Maps: The Brief

SCOTUS Doubts Using Race in Voting Maps

US SUPREME COURT conservatives today indicated they will restrict the drawing of majority-Black and majority-Hispanic voting districts in a case that could further undermine a landmark civil rights law and boost Republican electoral prospects, Greg Stohr reports.

• Key justices expressed support for GOP-led efforts to narrow the 1965 Voting Rights Act during oral arguments in a Louisiana redistricting case. At issue is whether the Constitution permits the intentional creation of heavily minority districts, as the court has previously said is sometimes required under the Voting Rights Act’s Section 2 to ensure those voters ...