NRCC praises Supreme Court Voting Rights Act ruling: ‘Victory for the Constitution’
The National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) on Wednesday celebrated the Supreme Court ruling striking down Louisiana’s congressional map that created a second-Black majority district.
“Today’s decision is a victory for the Constitution and the principle that every American citizen is equal under the law,” NRCC Chair Rep. Richard Hudson (R-N.C.) wrote in a statement.
“The Supreme Court made clear that our elections should be decided by voters, not engineered through unconstitutional mandates,” he added.
Earlier Wednesday, the high court, in a 6-3 decision along ideological lines, weakened a central provision of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act. The ruling falls in line with a conservative push to curtail the section, which ensures equal access to the political process based on race.
The clause has long enabled advocacy groups to champion new majority-minority districts.
“For too long, activists have manipulated the redistricting process to achieve political outcomes, dividing Americans instead of bringing them together,” Hudson said in a statement on Wednesday’s ruling.
“This ruling restores fairness, strengthens confidence in our elections, and ensures every voter is treated equally under the law,” he added.
In the majority reading , Justice Samuel Alito said Louisiana’s map was an “unconstitutional gerrymander” and its use would violate the plaintiffs’ constitutional rights.
The Supreme Court decision will impact future of litigation for redistricting after states grappled with mid-decade efforts to redraw congressional maps, abandoning the traditional process that aligns with the U.S. census.
New challenges to voting maps in Southern states with majority-minority districts could emerge ahead of the midterm elections.
“The consequences are likely to be far-reaching and grave. Today’s decision renders Section 2 all but a dead letter,” Justice Elena Kagan wrote in her dissent for the liberal minority .
“In the States where that law continues to matter—the States still marked by residential segregation and racially polarized voting—minority voters can now be cracked out of the electoral process. The decision here is about Louisiana’s District 6. But so too it is about Louisiana’s District 2. And so too it is about the many other districts, particularly in the South, that in the last half-century have given minority citizens, and particularly African Americans, a meaningful political voice,” she added.
Kagan continued, “After today, those districts exist only on sufferance, and probably not for long.”
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