US Supreme Court Won’t Intervene in Key Voting Rights Act Challenge

The U.S. Supreme Court on Dec. 12 declined to intervene in a Voting Rights Act-related ruling issued by a lower court that had invalidated a Republican-drawn commissioners map in a Texas county. However, the high court’s order means that the Galveston County Commissioners Court map that was drafted by Republicans can remain intact. It came after a federal judge ruled that the map had violated Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act and ordered Galveston County to draw a new one. The order was left unsigned, although two liberal justices—Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson—joined a dissent written by liberal Justice Elena Kagan....