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

The court's decision in Louisiana v. Callais takes the teeth out of the Voting Rights Act, making it nearly impossible to draw new minority districts.

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

Today, the Supreme Court issued a decision striking down a congressional map in Louisiana with a second majority-Black district. This decision guts Section 2 of the Voting Rights…

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

In a devastating blow to what John Lewis called “the most powerful non-violent tool we have in a democracy,” a right-wing, illegitimate SCOTUS finally gutted the Voting Rights Act…

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