Supreme Court calls Louisiana’s House map an ‘unconstitutional racial gerrymander’

The U.S. Supreme Court

The court kept Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act intact, but the decision all but guts a landmark law that came out of the Civil Rights Movement and protected the collective voting power of racial minorities when political maps are redrawn.

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