The Supreme Court’s decision Wednesday to throw out Louisiana’s two racially drawn congressional districts may mean Mississippi’s legislative maps are about to change, too.
The result could be a return to a super Republican majority in the state legislature and an additional U.S. House seat for the GOP.
On Wednesday, the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that the Voting Rights Act of 1965 did not require Louisiana to create a majority-black district, as a lower court had held in a 2022 decision.
“Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, 52 U. S. C. §10301 et seq., was designed to enforce the Constitution — not collide with it. Unfortunately, lower courts have sometimes applied this Court’s §2 precedents in a way that forces States to engage in the very race-based discrimination that the Constitution forbids,” the Court said.
Last week, before the Supreme Court’s ruling, but in the aftermath of
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