Supreme Court, Voting Rights Act
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The Supreme Court has indicated a willingness to limit race-based districts under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act
“No, it’s not,” Jackson said, interrupting the lawyer’s characterization and emphasizing that identifying the harm—not the remedy—was the court’s first obligation.
Three Pennsylvania Supreme Court justices are on the ballot this November, as voters will decide whether to extend each of their tenures for another 10-year term. There are currently five justices who were elected as Democrats and two who were elected as Republicans on the bench.
Colorado leaders have requested that the Supreme Court refuse a case over water rights in the South Platte River.
The Supreme Court heard oral arguments on Wednesday in a case that could dramatically reshape the electoral politics of the American south. The court heard a challenge to a central pillar of the Voting Rights Act, which was originally designed to protect the electoral power of black Americans in the face of state-sanctioned discrimination.
U.S President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he might go to the Supreme Court to watch argument in the case against his administration's tariffs.
The Supreme Court appear poised to limit the use of the Voting Rights Act after hearing extended arguments in a case challenging Louisiana’s newly drawn congressional map, which included a second majority-Black district.
The Supreme Court turned away a case involving the online dating platform Grindr and the legal shield for online companies.