Supreme Court Conservatives Add New Minority Voter Roadblocks

The US Supreme Court made it more difficult for Black and minority voters to argue that legislators relied too much on race in drawing new voting maps, civil rights advocates said.

The 6-3 ruling Thursday that South Carolina voters hadn’t proved that race rather than partisanship motivated Republican legislators in drawing district lines creates new roadblocks to those challenging racial gerrymandering and reverberates well beyond South Carolina.

“I do not want to say that these claims cannot be established under different facts and under different circumstances,” said NAACP Legal Defense Fund Senior Counsel Leah Aden, who argued the case on ...