Vote-Dilution

Supreme Court Expands Louisiana Redistricting Case to Challenge Section 2 of Voting Rights Act

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The Supreme Court took the extraordinary step of expanding the legal questions in Louisiana v. Callais (Nos. 24-109, 24-110), ordering supplemental briefs on whether creating majority-minority districts to remedy Voting Rights Act violations violates the Fourteenth or Fifteenth Amendments. The …

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