The Supreme Court struck down 11 of 12 Virginia state legislative districts on Wednesday, ruling unanimously that a lower court erred in deciding those districts were not racially gerrymandered.
The court’s opinion, delivered by Justice Anthony Kennedy, said the district court misapplied the law because of a misunderstanding of previous Supreme Court decisions regarding the criterion to establish racial predominance and because of incomplete consideration of the Virginia legislature’s motivation.
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