Ashley Oliver is a Justice Department reporter for the Washington Examiner. She previously covered Congress and campaigns for Breitbart News. Originally from Fredericksburg, Virginia, she graduated from Virginia Tech with a degree in classics and philosophy before spending six years in Massachusetts working in the real estate industry.
The Supreme Court raised concerns during oral arguments Wednesday that a civil rights group had no direct evidence that racial discrimination occurred in South Carolina’s recent redistricting process, signaling the court could overturn a lower court's decision that had favored the group.
"We have said that the burden that you're assuming of disentangling race and politics in a situation like this is very, very difficult, but it is your burden, right?" Chief Justice John Roberts asked Leah Aden, who appeared on behalf of the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund.
Other Republican-appointed justices, including Justice Samuel Alito, raised similar points after Aden leaned heavily on experts as evidence, rather than the evidence Roberts had specified.
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