Supreme Court’s Voting Rights Act ruling makes it harder to protect minority voting power and alters the landscape of future elections

The conservative majority at the US Supreme Court has issued a ruling in a gerrymandering case that one liberal justice called the ‘now-completed demolition of the Voting Rights Act.’

By: Sam D. Hayes, Simmons University, The Conversation

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Published: April 29, 2026

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By Sam D. Hayes, Simmons University

In a major ruling that would permit weakening the voting power of minorities in the United States, the Supreme Court on April 29, 2026, struck down a Black-majority district in Louisiana’s congressional map as “an unconstitutional gerrymander” and altered the court’s interpretation of the Voting Rights Act.

In a 6-3 decision, the court’s conservative majority argued that Louisiana had violated the law by drawing a second Black-majority district. Justice …

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