Supreme Court Curbs Use of Race in Drawing Voting Districts

The US Supreme Court limited the use of the Voting Rights Act to create predominantly Black or Hispanic election districts in a major constitutional ruling that buttresses Republican efforts to keep control of the House in this year’s midterms and beyond.
Voting 6-3 along ideological lines, the justices rejected a Louisiana congressional map that was drawn with a second majority-Black district after a lower court found an earlier map to be discriminatory.
Bloomberg Law Host June Grasso discusses the ruling with Paul Sweeney and Scarlet Fu on Bloomberg Intelligence. (Source: Bloomberg)