Alito Justifies Supreme Court Ruling on Gerrymandering

Samuel Alito justified a Supreme Court ruling that threatens majority-Black voting districts The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled that Louisiana’s second majority-Black congressional district was an unconstitutional racial gerrymander and sharply narrowed how the Voting Rights Act can be used to challenge discriminatory election maps. Callais, Justice Samuel Alito wrote for the conservative majority that Louisiana did not need to create a second majority-Black district under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, even though a lower federal court had previously found the state’s earlier congressional map likely violated that same law for failing to do so. “Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 was designed to enforce the Constitution, not collide with it,” Alito wrote.