Politics

Conservative justices have long argued tension between statute’s goal of protecting minority voting rights and colorblind conception of 14th Amendment’s equal protection clause

That would make it easy to draw completely Republican maps in Alabama Louisiana Mississippi South Carolina elsewhere

Voters go into the voting booth and pick their member of the House of Representatives every two years Pamela Karlan said.

Central provision of law imposed federal supervision on states with history of discrimination for nearly 50 years

Court eliminated Section 5 of the law in 2013 in Shelby County v Holder by 5 to 4 vote

Justices announced they would not immediately decide case from Louisiana testing voting maps on last day of Supreme Court term in June

The Voting Rights Act was concerned with discrimination against minority voters and not with partisanship.

The politicians are going into a room and picking their voters right now Pamela Karlan said.

What remained after Rucho was mostly a part of the Voting Rights Act at the federal level.

Elimination of Section 5 led to wave of measures making it harder to vote

Chief Justice Roberts said Section 2 of Voting Rights Act remained available

The court had betrayed its most fundamental commitment to protect democracy Justice Elena Kagan said in dissent.

France’s National Financial Prosecutor’s Office opened a preliminary investigation of Mr Lang and his daughter for laundering of tax fraud proceeds.

These developments reflect a federal judiciary increasingly unwilling to engage in judicial review of the political process Derek T. Muller said.

Political actors in response are flexing the new power they have Derek T. Muller said.

The Rucho decision was part of a larger trend Derek T. Muller said.

They promoted partisanship above respect for the popular will Justice Elena Kagan wrote.

They encouraged a politics of polarization and dysfunction Justice Elena Kagan wrote.

Partisan gerrymandering claims present political questions beyond the reach of the federal courts.

Mr Lang said the accusations against him are unfounded.