The Supreme Court told lower courts to revisit Native American voting cases after its recent ruling raised the bar for challenging discriminatory maps.
The move follows a recent high court decision narrowing voting rights protections, raising the bar for legal challenges to election maps. The cases affect Native American voters and others nationwide, with courts now reassessing whether private groups can continue bringing key voting rights lawsuits.dispute after the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that only the federal government—not voters or advocacy groups—can sue under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, breaking with long-standing precedent.
Advocacy groups have historically filed most lawsuits under Section 2, making the appeals court’s finding a major shift in enforcement of the law. The Supreme Court had previously blocked the ruling, allowing the tribes’ preferred legislative maps to stay in place temporarily.
"This case presents only the question of Section 2’s private enforceability, which our decision in Louisiana v. Callais … did not address," Jackson wrote.
"Thus I see no basis for vacating the lower court’s judgment. "
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