The Justice Department has asked the Supreme Court to overturn race-based redistricting ahead of oral arguments in a case stemming from the intentional creation of a second majority Black district in Louisiana.
In a brief to the high court, the DOJ argued that the creation of Louisiana’s second Black majority district – established to comply with a separate court order – was an unconstitutional racial gerrymander.
The government also asked the justices to revisit the court’s ruling from 1986 in Thornburg v. Gingles, which established a three-pronged test for proving vote dilution under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act.
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