All three liberal justices dissented from the Supreme Court’s 6-3 decision on May 23 to uphold a congressional redistricting plan in South Carolina, arguing that the court was wrong not to find the new map was a product of race-based discrimination.
Justice Elena Kagan wrote in her strongly worded dissent that the court’s majority has gone “seriously wrong,” and ignored existing precedent by not showing due deference to the trial court in a decision that will make it more difficult in the future to prove racial gerrymandering.
The justice’s concerns were shared by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), which, after prevailing in the lower courts, was a respondent in the appeal before the Supreme Court….
