High Court To Review School Board Redistricting Case
The U.S. Supreme Court will use the redistricting case of a Louisiana school board to decide an important issue under the Voting Rights Act of 1965: whether voting districts that are drawn with a discriminatory purpose can be rejected even if they don't leave minority voters worse off than before.
For the high court, it will be the second time it has reviewed the redistricting of the Bossier Parish school board, which at the time the new voting lines were drawn in 1992 had never had an elected black member. Voters have since elected three African-Americans to the board.
The 19,000-student school district in northwestern Louisiana is covered by Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act, which means the Department of Justice or a federal court must approve any changes in voting...
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