Court’s 6-3 decision is a major upheaval in US civil rights law and gives lawmakers permission to draw districting plans that weaken the influence of Black and other minority voters– key US politics stories from Wednesday 29 April at a glance

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

Court’s 6-3 decision is a major upheaval in US civil rights law and gives lawmakers permission to draw districting plans that weaken the influence of Black and other minority…

Ruling, called 'big win' by Trump, will result in redistricting in Louisiana, but it will have farther-reaching effects.

Rightwing justices in Louisiana v Callais led 6-3 vote to redraw congressional maps in blow to Voting Rights Act

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