Liberals are getting nervous about November’s midterm elections after the Supreme Court handed Republicans a huge victory, which could signal how the justices might rule on a pending Voting Rights Act issue.
On Monday night, the high court ruled on a gerrymandering case and paused a lower court order that would have required New York state to redraw its congressional maps in an effort to aid black and Latino voters, according to SCOTUS Blog.
Justice Samuel Alito wrote a concurring opinion to the unsigned emergency order, calling the original ruling “unadorned racial discrimination.”