Supreme Court, Voting Rights Act and Louisiana
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The Supreme Court will consider whether Louisiana's intentional creation of a second majority-Black district violates the 14th and 15th Amendments.
The Supreme Court will hear a major challenge to the Voting Rights Act on Wednesday morning, as Louisiana fights to toss its new congressional map that added a second Black-majority district. The redistricting battle has brought the court to the verge of curtailing a central provision of the 1965 Voting Rights Act that has
The case over Louisiana congressional districts could have broad implications for the law and politics, and potentially gut the remaining pillar of the Voting Rights Act.
The Supreme Court’s next voting-rights showdown began with a plaintiff who didn’t even know he was part of it.
A case being argued at the US Supreme Court could undo one of the last remaining protections for minority voters in a Civil Rights-era voting law.