Decision gives mapmakers in Republican states power to crack districts into pieces and dilute votes into oblivion

The decision will make it more difficult to successfully challenge legislative maps for diluting the voting power of racial minorities.

Justices rule in landmark decision Louisiana will have to redraw congressional map, largely killing major civil rights law

Decision gives mapmakers in Republican states power to crack districts into pieces and dilute votes into oblivion

This court has impaled one of the most important laws in American history, with disastrous consequences for multiracial democracy