Supreme Court Limits Use of Race in Drawing Voting Districts
The US Supreme Court voted 6-3 along ideological lines to limit the use of the Voting Rights Act to create predominantly Black or Hispanic election districts.
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.
Michael McKee reports on Bloomberg Television. (Source: Bloomberg)
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