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Supreme Court limits use of race in redistricting in a win for Republicans
The ruling could reshape congressional maps nationwide and affect nearly 70 districts protected by Section 2, election law experts said.
- On Wednesday, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that Louisiana's 2024 congressional map was an "unconstitutional racial gerrymander," requiring the state to redraw its districts.
- Following the 2020 Census, Louisiana initially defended its remedial map but later reversed course, joining a group of non-Black voters who challenged the district lines as violating the Constitution.
- Justice Samuel Alito, writing for the conservative majority, argued the district relied too heavily on race; Justice Elena Kagan dissented, warning the decision renders Section 2 "all but a dead letter."
- The decision restricts how courts interpret the Voting Rights Act, potentially enabling Republicans to gain 19 House seats ahead of the 2026 midterm elections.
- Plaintiffs challenging future redistricting must now ensure "demonstration maps" are race-neutral and control for partisan affiliation, fundamentally altering legal strategies nationwide.
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‘This is going to be a potential battle.’ Court decision gutting voting rights law could reshape map-making in Massachusetts. - The Boston Globe
Experts say the Supreme Court ruling could change future map-making even in deep-blue Massachusetts, where lawmakers have explicitly considered racial diversity in how they’ve drawn their districts.
SCOTUS Delivers Huge Victory For Republicans By Handing Them Up To 27 House Seats, And Kamala Harris Is Having A Total Meltdown About It - The American Tribune.com
Former Vice President and failed Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris ripped into the Supreme Court’s ruling in which a redistricting map in Louisiana, which redrew lines based on race, was struck down, going on to claim that the decision “guts the Voting Rights Act.” Harris took to social media platform X to express her thoughts on SCOTUS ending race-based voting, which, conservatives say benefits Democrats. Harris referred to the deci…
Hillary Clinton Calls Supreme Court Voting Rights Ruling "Overlooks Reality For a Self-Serving Right-Wing Fantasy"
Hillary Clinton accused the Supreme Court's conservative majority of demolishing what remained of the Voting Rights Act, warning that Republican-led states are already moving to redraw congressional maps in ways that could dilute Black voting power.
Supreme Court Strikes Down Race-Based Redistricting, Trump Hails Ruling With Potential 2026 Midterm Impact
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POLITICS: Supreme Court signals the end of legalized race-games — hooray!
Hail to the Supreme Court for slapping down the obsessive use of race in drawing electoral lines — recognizing that it has nothing to do with boosting equality, but rather offends the Constitution’s guarantee of equal protection under the law. Wednesday’s common-sense 6-3 ruling struck down a Louisiana districting scheme that added a second majority-black House district in the name of complying with the 1965 Voting Rights Act. That act, Justice …
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