Supreme Court's Voting Rights Act Ruling Empowers Southern Advocates.

Voting rights advocates and election attorneys are preparing for a new flood of redistricting litigation lawsuits challenging political maps, especially in the South, they say discriminate against minorities. The Supreme Court's decision in a major Alabama redistricting case has likely emboldened voting rights advocates to bring cases they previously thought would have been doomed. The ruling effectively maintained the status quo around how courts should approach Voting Rights Act lawsuits that allege a legislative map discriminates by race. There are 31 active federal cases involving Voting Rights Act redistricting claims similar to those in the Alabama case.