The U.S. Supreme Court, in a 6-3 decision along partisan lines, ruled that Louisiana’s 2024 election map, which created a second majority-Black congressional district, was “an unconstitutional racial gerrymander.”
Although the court technically kept Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act intact, Wednesday’s decision is the latest in a series of rulings that have all but gutted the landmark 1965 law, which came out of the Civil Rights Movement and protected the collective voting power of racial minorities.
Experts expect the ruling to diminish minority representation across all levels of government.
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