Supreme Court Conservatives Question Race-Based Voting Lines
The clash between the Liberals and the Conservatives is testing the tension between two lines of Supreme Court precedents.
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US Supreme Court conservatives questioned whether the Voting Rights Act can constitutionally be used to create majority-Black voting districts, even as a key justice signaled he wasn’t ready to address the issue in the Louisiana case before the court.
Hearing arguments in Washington Monday, the court displayed a deep divide over the use of race in redistricting. Justice Neil Gorsuch questioned whether the Constitution permits race to be a factor, pointing to what he said was the “14th Amendment’s promise that race should play no role in our laws.”