In a surprise ruling, two conservative justices came to the rescue of voting rights
of 1965. Section 2 of the landmark civil-rights law prohibits states from drawing district boundaries that cause the “denial or abridgment” of citizens’ opportunity to vote “on account of race”. Racial minorities must have an equal chance to “participate in the political process” and to “elect representatives of their choice”.arose after Alabama adopted an electoral map in 2021 that included just one of seven districts where black voters forge a majority.
But the following month, the Supreme Court handed down a 5-4 order honouring Alabama’s request to temporarily block the lower court’s ruling. This allowed Alabama to proceed as planned with its map for the 2022 elections. It also left in place similarly challenged maps in Georgia, Louisiana and Texas, giving Republicans an edge that helped them capture the House of Representatives.
It seems a more complete examination of the case led Justice Kavanaugh to a resolution quite different from what nearly all observers were expecting. On June 8th he, along with Chief Justice John Roberts, joined the court’s three liberal justices in sticking with the lower court’s initial finding: that Alabama’s map violated the law.
The majority opinion by Chief Justice Roberts casts the former staffer in Ronald Reagan’s Department of Justice in a new light. In the 1980s he was an energetic opponent of changes that permitted
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