United States Supreme Court

In an appeal from a state court order requiring a voting district to be redrawn under the Voting Rights Act (VRA), the judgment is affirmed. The plurality opinion stated that Section 2 of the VRA does not require state officials to draw election-district lines to allow a racial minority that would make up less than 50 percent of the voting-age population in the redrawn district to join with crossover voters to elect the minority's candidate of choice.

Appellate Information

• Decided 03/09/2009
• Published 03/09/2009

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• United States Supreme Court

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