In a 5-4 decision joined by Chief John Roberts and beer guy Brett Kavanaugh, the US Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the Voting Rights Act’s protection against racial gerrymanders, refusing to allow Alabama to create a new standard that would’ve been almost impossible to challenge district maps drawn along racial lines, Talking Points Memo reports on a surprise win for democracy.
Elections nerd Dave Wasserman writes the decision “could reverberate” to Louisiana, South Carolina, and Georgia, “forcing creation of 2-4 new Black majority districts and netting Dems 2-4 seats.”