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Supreme Court Decides Important Voting Rights Case

Yesterday in Louisiana v. Callais, the Supreme Court significantly modified the test courts must use to determine if a claim under §2 of the Voting Rights Act (VRA) for race-based vote dilution may proceed.  The Court’s new test reframes the focus to discriminatory intent, separate and apart from any intent to gain a partisan advantage, rather than the prior focus on discriminatory results/impacts. The majority indicated it was not “abandoning” the test to determine if a legislature has violated §2 of...