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The Supreme Court has weakened a key tool of the Voting Rights Act that has helped root out racial discrimination in voting for more than half a century in a case concerning a Black majority congressional district in Louisiana.<\/p>\n
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The court\u2019s conservative majority found that the district, represented by Democrat Cleo Fields, relied too heavily on race. Chief Justice John Roberts had described the district as a \u201csnake\u201d that stretches more than 200 miles (320 kilometers) to link parts of the Shreveport, Alexandria, Lafayette and Baton Rouge areas.<\/p>\n
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The Rev. Al Sharpton said the Supreme Court \u201chas humiliated and dismantled the life\u2019s work of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., John Lewis, and every man and woman who marched, bled, and died for Black Americans to have an equal voice at the ballot box.\u201d<\/p>\n
The plaintiffs argued that Louisiana\u2019s second Black-majority congressional district, drawn to correct a previously discriminatory map, has an unconstitutional racial basis and did not follow the standards for drawing a district, including compactness.<\/p>\n
The 1965 Voting Rights Act, the centerpiece legislation of the Civil Rights Movement, succeeded in opening the ballot box to Black Americans and reducing persistent discrimination in voting. Nearly 70 of the 435 congressional districts are protected by Section 2, election law experts estimate.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s unclear how much is left of Section 2, but the ruling could open the door for Republican-led states to eliminate Black and Latino electoral districts that tend to favor Democrats and affect the balance of power in Congress. President Donald Trump has already touched off a nationwide redistricting battle to boost Republican chances.<\/p>\n
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Congressional Black Caucus members vow to fight back<\/p>\n
Members of the Congressional Black Caucus pledged to fight back after the Supreme Court decision and called for the passage of the John Lewis Voting Rights Act.<\/p>\n
Rep. Yvette Clarke, a New York Democrat who chairs the caucus, told reporters that the decision allows politicians to \u201cchoose their voters instead of the other way around.\u201d<\/p>\n
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\u201cThe Supreme Court has opened the door to a coordinated attack on Black voters across the country,\u201d Clarke said. \u201cThis is an outright power grab.\u201d<\/p>\n
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, also of New York, said the decision came from \u201cthe Trump court\u201d in \u201can effort to suppress the vote and rig the midterm elections and beyond.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAt this moment in time, we\u2019re urging everyone to summon the courage, the character, and the conviction of those heroes like John Lewis and Rosa Parks and so many others upon whose shoulders we stand,\u201d Jeffries said.<\/p>\n
The top Republican in Tennessee\u2019s Senate warns of \u2018logistical challenges\u2019 to immediate redistricting<\/p>\n
Tennessee lawmakers need to discuss whether it\u2019s feasible to redistrict in light of the new court ruling, Senate Speaker Randy McNally said, since deadlines to file paperwork to run for office have passed, and candidates have already entered their races. The primary elections are Aug. 6.<\/p>\n
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The state\u2019s current map is \u201cstrong, fair and legal\u201d and has survived court challenges, McNally said in a statement.<\/p>\n
Kentucky Gov. Beshear says the court decision underscores the importance of having Democratic governors<\/p>\n
While much of the attention in Washington this year is on the battle for control of Congress, there are 36 governors races on the ballot in November.<\/p>\n
Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear said the Supreme Court\u2019s decision is a reminder of the significance of those races, since so many voting laws are crafted at the state level.<\/p>\n
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\u201cOne of the best ways to fight back is to elect more Democratic governors \u2013 who are on the frontlines of protecting and expanding fundamental freedoms and democracy in our states,\u201d Beshear said in a statement. \u201cWe have 36 opportunities to do that this year and rulings like this show that the stakes have never been higher.\u201d<\/p>\n
Beshear is the chair of the Democratic Governors Association, a group focused on electing Democrats as state leaders.<\/p>\n
Alabama Democrat whose district was created by a court order slams the decision<\/p>\n
Rep. Shomari Figures, whose district was court-ordered after judges found Black voting power was diluted, said the ruling makes future discrimination claims harder to prove.<\/p>\n
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He warned it could prompt Southern states to redraw maps in ways that weaken Black voters\u2019 influence. Alabama\u2019s current map remains in place under a court order through 2030, although the state is appealing.<\/p>\n
House GOP campaign chairman says redrawing maps is up to the states<\/p>\n
Rep. Richard Hudson welcomed the court\u2019s decision. \u201cI was glad to see it come down,\u201d he told reporters at the U.S. Capitol.<\/p>\n
But the head of the National Republican Congressional Committee stopped short of saying he would encourage states to reconsider congressional district maps before the November election.<\/p>\n
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\u201cI don\u2019t know what the implications are going be for the fall,\u201d the North Carolina congressman said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s pretty late,\u201d he said. \u201cWe\u2019ll see. It\u2019s up to governors and legislators.\u201d<\/p>\n
Louisiana governor says the state is weighing its next steps<\/p>\n
Republican Gov. Jeff Landry said the state attorney general and legislative leadership are discussing \u201cwhat our options are.\u201d He said it could take at least a day to fully assess the high court\u2019s decision.<\/p>\n
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In a post on the social platform X, the governor \u2014 who has close ties to Trump \u2014 said the ruling affirms that states can draw districts \u201cfor political reasons.\u201d He said federal courts cannot require \u201crace-based redistricting\u201d or treat what he called partisan disputes as violations of the Voting Rights Act.<\/p>\n
Obama says the ruling \u2018effectively guts a key pillar of the Voting Rights Act\u2019<\/p>\n
The nation\u2019s first Black president issued a statement decrying the ruling as \u201cjust one more example of how a majority of the current Court seems intent on abandoning its vital role in ensuring equal participation in our democracy and protecting the rights of minority groups against majority overreach.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThe good news is that such setbacks can be overcome,\u201d Obama, a Democrat, continued. \u201cBut that will only happen if citizens across the country who cherish our democratic ideals continue to mobilize and vote in record numbers.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Democratic Rep. Jim Clyburn says the ruling will fuel redistricting fights and weaken Black representation<\/p>\n
The South Carolina congressional district held by 85-year-old Clyburn, who for a time was the highest-ranking Black member of Congress, has been a focus for Republicans angling to pick up an additional seat.<\/p>\n
Clyburn said in a statement that the Supreme Court had taken \u201ca giant step backward,\u201d one that \u201cthreatens to send our country deeper into the thicket of never-ending redistricting fights, with repeated aggressive map redraws, protracted legal battles, and relentless partisan tugs-of-war.\u201d<\/p>\n
South Carolina\u2019s 2022 map, which packs Democrats into Clyburn\u2019s district, was upheld by the Supreme Court in 2024. Republicans have since tried to redraw the seat to flip it.<\/p>\n
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Trump says more districts should be redrawn after Wednesday\u2019s ruling<\/p>\n
The president said the decision, which could pave the way for other districts to be redrawn in the Republicans\u2019 favor, is the \u201ckind of ruling I like.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cSome states don\u2019t need to redraw, and some do,\u201d Trump said, while noting that generally, he would want Republican state officials to revise the congressional maps.<\/p>\n
Still, he wasn\u2019t initially aware of what had happened. When asked by a reporter for his reaction to the decision, Trump asked when the ruling had come out.<\/p>\n
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\u201cI\u2019ve been with the astronauts,\u201d he rationalized. \u201cI\u2019ve been with contractors because we\u2019re trying to get the ballroom built.\u201d<\/p>\n
Georgia senator calls the decision a \u2018huge step backwards\u2019<\/p>\n
Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock, who is Black, says he would not be in Congress without the Voting Rights Act and slammed the Supreme Court\u2019s decision as a blow for racial justice.<\/p>\n
\u201cMake no mistake, this ruling harkens back to the darkest days of the Jim Crow era,\u201d he told reporters.<\/p>\n
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Americans, he said, are being \u201cfurther squeezed out of their democracy.\u201d<\/p>\n
Tennessee Republicans consider their options<\/p>\n
Asked about the prospect of trying to redistrict the state\u2019s Memphis-centered Democratic seat, Tennessee\u2019s Republican House Speaker Cameron Sexton said in a written statement, \u201cWe are reviewing the recent opinion as I have conversations with the White House and other individuals.\u201d<\/p>\n
Alabama attorney general wants to apply the Supreme Court ruling to his state\u2019s redistricting<\/p>\n
Attorney General Steve Marshall said he wants to ensure Alabama\u2019s congressional maps reflect voters\u2019 will, not what he called an unconstitutional racial quota system.<\/p>\n
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The state is appealing a federal order requiring the state to continue using a court-drawn map with an additional district where Black voters are a majority or near it.<\/p>\n
Marshall called Wednesday\u2019s decision a \u201cwatershed moment\u201d that means states \u201ccannot be forced to gerrymander by race.\u201d<\/p>\n
He added that the high court recognized progress in the South and said laws from an earlier era no longer reflect current conditions.<\/p>\n
A Black voter from New Orleans says he\u2019s upset by the ruling<\/p>\n
Thomas Johnson, a Black man from New Orleans who was visiting Louisiana\u2019s Capitol on Wednesday, said he specifically feared the possibility that Republicans could redraw the state\u2019s congressional map in a way that dismantles predominately Black districts.<\/p>\n
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\u201cI feel like this is an embarrassing attack upon the minorities, particularly the Black community,\u201d who he feels have little say in Washington.<\/p>\n
Johnson is currently represented by U.S. Rep. Troy Carter, one of two Black Democrats from Louisiana in Congress.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are going to do all we can and continue fighting so our voices are heard,\u201d Johnson said. \u201cThat\u2019s all we want, to be heard.\u201d<\/p>\n
Louisiana\u2019s other Democratic congressman says his seat isn\u2019t safe either<\/p>\n
While the Supreme Court ruled on the district represented by Rep. Cleo Fields, the other Democratic member of Louisiana\u2019s U.S. House delegation is concerned about the fate of his seat, too.<\/p>\n
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\u201cThe reality is our maps were drawn together,\u201d said Rep. Troy Carter, whose district includes New Orleans. \u201cSo that means if they\u2019re all thrown out as unconstitutional, then the likelihood that new maps would be drawn that would in fact not only impact Congressman Fields but also impact me as well.\u201d<\/p>\n
Rights groups aren\u2019t mincing words about the Supreme Court decision<\/p>\n
Janai Nelson, president and director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, said the decision is a blow to American democracy and one that will further erode trust in the Supreme Court among diverse populations.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a day of loss of any remnant or modicum of credibility of this Supreme Court to rise above partisan politics,\u201d Nelson said. \u201cIt has elevated the principle of partisanship and politics over the right to vote.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Wednesday\u2019s decision is a \u201cprofound betrayal of the civil rights movement,\u201d said Sophia Lin Lakin, deputy director of the ACLU\u2019s Voting Rights Project. Minority communities won\u2019t just potentially lose a seat in Congress, she said, they\u2019ll lose a voice on issues like healthcare, education and infrastructure.<\/p>\n
\u201cStates can now point to partisan objectives to justify maps that strip voters of color of representation, and federal courts will have little basis to intervene,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
A voting rights advocate doesn\u2019t know if the ruling will spur redistricting this year<\/p>\n
David Becker, the founder and executive director of the Center for Election Innovation and Research, said the ruling will allow lawmakers to reduce the power of minority voters \u2014 at least eventually.<\/p>\n
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\u201cHow it will affect 2026, I don\u2019t know,\u201d Becker said Wednesday on a call with reporters. \u201cIt could be open season now, but we\u2019re also running out of time.\u201d<\/p>\n
Obama\u2019s attorney general says this Supreme Court has earned an infamous place in history<\/p>\n
Eric Holder, the former Obama-era U.S. attorney general whose administration lost a crucial voting rights battle in 2013, said Wednesday\u2019s ruling amounted to \u201cSupreme Court sanctioned racial and partisan gerrymandering.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Court today ensures that it will be remembered as one of the most destructive and deeply irresponsible Courts in the history of our nation,\u201d Holder said in a statement.<\/p>\n
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\u201cIt should not be lost on anyone,\u201d he added, \u201cthat the Roberts court makes this decision at a time when Republican leaders across the country are foaming at the mouth to draw the American people out of a meaningful say in our elections.\u201d<\/p>\n
After leaving public service, Holder formed the National Redistricting Foundation to protect voting rights and challenge gerrymandered congressional and state legislative districts.<\/p>\n
Candidate for Tennessee governor calls for redistricting after Supreme Court decision<\/p>\n
Republican U.S. Sen. Marsha Blackburn, who is running for governor this year, called on social media for the GOP-supermajority state Legislature to reconvene and draw Tennessee\u2019s only Democratic congressional seat to favor a pickup for Republicans.<\/p>\n
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The district centers on the majority-Black city of Memphis.<\/p>\n
One top Georgia Republican calls for immediate redistricting, even with voting underway<\/p>\n
Redrawing Georgia\u2019s maps for the 2026 elections would be difficult because early voting is already underway for the May 19 party primaries, in advance of the November election.<\/p>\n
A spokesperson for Republican Gov. Brian Kemp and state Republican Party Chairman Josh McKoon didn\u2019t immediately respond Wednesday to queries about immediate redistricting. State Senate Minority Harold Jones II, an Augusta Democrat, said he\u2019s unsure of the prospects of quick action.<\/p>\n
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But one leading GOP candidate to replace Kemp urged the governor to act immediately, which could protect Republican power even if Georgia Democrats make gains this fall.<\/p>\n
\u201cDemocrats nationally are trying to redistrict their way back to power, and what happened in Virginia is just the tip of the spear,\u201d businessman Rick Jackson said in a statement. \u201cThere is no time to waste. Georgia must act now to ensure secure elections in Georgia and counter the Democrats\u2019 national assault on our elections.\u201d<\/p>\n
Hakeem Jeffries slams the Supreme Court decision as \u2018far right extremists\u2019 thinking<\/p>\n
House minority leader Hakeem Jeffries accused the Supreme Court of being \u201cfar right extremists\u201d and of voter suppression being \u201ca way of life\u201d for Trump and Republicans, in a strongly worded statement on social media.<\/p>\n
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\u201cRepublicans know they cannot win a free and fair election in November and so they are desperate to rig it. We will never let them succeed,\u201d the Democrat wrote.<\/p>\n
Jeffries has previously claimed Trump makes power grabs when it comes to voting.<\/p>\n
When Trump signed an executive order in March to create a nationwide list of verified eligible voters and to restrict mail-in voting, Jeffries said it would make voting unnecessarily difficult of communities of color, people with disabilities and other key demographics.<\/p>\n
King family \u2018deeply troubled\u2019 by Supreme Court decision<\/p>\n
Martin Luther King III, the eldest son of the late civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., and his wife Arndrea Waters King said in a statement that the Supreme Court decision \u201cfurther weakened the Voting Rights Act.\u201d<\/p>\n
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\u201cThis decision silences the voices of millions of voters of color by undermining the purpose of the VRA \u2013 securing and protecting the political rights of Black and Brown communities across the country,\u201d they said. \u201cDr. Martin Luther King Jr. understood that voting rights are the foundation of our entire democratic system. Without them, we are a democracy in name only. \u201c<\/p>\n
The couple are the founders of a civil rights organization called the Drum Major Institute.<\/p>\n
Congressional Black Caucus says the Supreme Court has \u2018signed the death certificate of the Voting Rights Act\u2019<\/p>\n
The 60 members of the Congressional Black Caucus, which is currently made up of all Democrats, said the ruling erased \u201cdecades of Black progress.\u201d<\/p>\n
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\u201cRepublicans now have the ability to move forward with a nationwide scheme to rig congressional maps in their favor \u2014 to manufacture more districts for themselves by eliminating majority-Black districts, while stripping away the ability to challenge those racist, anti-Black maps in court,\u201d the group said.<\/p>\n
The caucus added this could open the door for huge redistricting changes in the South and vowed to initiate \u201cany measure necessary\u201d to find a legislative remedy, and called for a vote on the John Lewis Voting Rights Act.<\/p>\n
Inside the Supreme Court as the decision was announced<\/p>\n
The already quiet courtroom went silent when Chief Justice John Roberts said Justice Samuel Alito would be reading the majority opinion.<\/p>\n
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Members of the audience listened raptly as he read, waiting to hear the depths of the Section 2 decision. Some in the audience nodded as Justice Elena Kagan read the dissent and said the majority had effectively finished a yearslong pursuit of the Voting Rights Act.<\/p>\n
A Black voter in Alabama reacts to the court\u2019s decision<\/p>\n
Shalela Dowdy in Mobile, Alabama, said she\u2019s worried the decision will lead to the rollback of an Alabama congressional district created in 2023, which she said gave previously ignored voters a seat at the table.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a setback. Putting it in the hands of the states on this level is dangerous,\u201d Dowdy said. \u201cThere\u2019s just been a history of the states not doing the right thing based off their state population.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Dowdy, who is Black, was a plaintiff in a lawsuit that resulted in the creation of the new district, now represented by Rep. Shomari Figures.<\/p>\n
She added that they are going to have to battle in court, and at the ballot box, to maintain representation: \u201cThe fight continues. You can\u2019t get comfortable.\u201d<\/p>\n
Rev. Al Sharpton says the decision is a \u2019bullet in the heart of the voting rights movement’<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Supreme Court has not just weakened a law, it has humiliated and dismantled the life\u2019s work of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., John Lewis, and every man and woman who marched, bled, and died for Black Americans to have an equal voice at the ballot box,\u201d Sharpton, the president of the National Action Network, said in a statement.<\/p>\n
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\u201cThis ruling does not just dishonor the generation that marched, it steals from the generation that hasn\u2019t voted yet,\u201d Sharpton added in the statement. \u201cBlack children growing up in this country deserve the same protections their grandparents bled for.\u201d<\/p>\n
He called on Congress to restore the Voting Rights Act through federal legislation, a task that has proved elusive while Capitol Hill has been narrowly split between Democrats and Republicans.<\/p>\n
Louisiana\u2019s Republican attorney general applauds the decision<\/p>\n
Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill said she will work with fellow Republican Gov. Jeff Landry and the GOP-dominated Legislature to \u201cprovide guidance as we move forward to adopt a constitutionally compliant map.\u201d<\/p>\n
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\u201cThe Supreme Court has ended Louisiana\u2019s long-running nightmare of federal courts coercing the state to draw a racially discriminatory map,\u201d Murrill wrote. \u201cThat was always unconstitutional\u2014and this is a seismic decision reaffirming equal protection under our nation\u2019s laws.\u201d<\/p>\n
Republican redistricting group hails the decision<\/p>\n
The ruling is expected to be an enormous boost for Republican efforts to expand their number of winnable seats in the House of Representatives and state legislatures.<\/p>\n
The GOP has long complained that Democrats turned the Voting Rights Act\u2019s protections into a partisan weapon to gain seats.<\/p>\n
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\u201cFor decades the left has spent hundreds of millions of dollars seeking to divide Americans along racial lines in a cynical pursuit of partisan power masquerading as civil rights,\u201d said Adam Kincaid, the National Republican Redistricting Trust\u2019s executive director, in a statement. \u201cToday\u2019s decision rebukes that divisive and unconstitutional effort.\u201d<\/p>\n
The decision will likely reignite legal battles over congressional districts in southern states including Alabama<\/p>\n
A federal court in 2023 ordered the creation of a new near-majority Black district which led to the election of Alabama\u2019s second Black congressional representative.<\/p>\n
Alabama is under a court order to use the new map through the rest of the decade, but the state appealed to the Supreme Court. Alabama has argued the court-drawn map is an illegal racial gerrymander.<\/p>\n
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Alabama House Speaker Pro Tempore Chris Pringle, a Republican, said he is hopeful that the Louisiana ruling means justices will rule in favor of Alabama in that appeal, eventually clearing the way for Alabama to draw its own map.<\/p>\n
\u201cI do believe the ruling today vindicates the state\u2019s argument that the court illegally racially gerrymandered the state in its ruling,\u201d Pringle said.<\/p>\n
The Supreme Court decision is hugely consequential, but maybe not for the 2026 election<\/p>\n
In most of the states where Republicans could benefit from eliminating Democratic districts that have majority Black or Hispanic populations, filing deadlines for congressional elections have already passed. In some, primaries have already occurred.<\/p>\n
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Barring extraordinary action, that means the most likely impact of Wednesday\u2019s decision will come in 2028, when the GOP can potentially replace more than a dozen Democratic-held House districts that were previously protected under the Voting Rights Act.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Voting Rights Act as a means to protect minority voters from vote dilution is essentially dead,\u201d said Jonathan Cervas, a political scientist at Carnegie-Mellon University who\u2019s served as a special master in multiple Voting Rights Act cases.<\/p>\n
Decision could cut Black political power in states and localities<\/p>\n
Over time, the decision could result in a sweeping rollback to Black political power at the state and local level.<\/p>\n
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There are hundreds of Black state legislators in the South. There are many more Black officials on county and parish governing bodies, school boards and city councils that make decisions about policing, road paving and school districting that touch everyday lives.<\/p>\n
In many cases, Black-majority districts that those officials represent have been carved out through decades of repeated Section 2 litigation. In states like Alabama and Mississippi, the racial cleavage is so deep that there are few Democratic state legislators who aren\u2019t Black.<\/p>\n
Wednesday\u2019s ruling could let white majorities wipe out districts where Black voters exercise power, particularly where they are numerous but in the minority. That would be a change from today, where Black officials often exercise real influence, even on governing bodies where they are in the minority.<\/p>\n
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