The Supreme Court officially wrapped up its term this week with a flurry of rulings ahead of the high court's summer recess.
came as no surprise given the court's 6-3 conservative majority, the final weeks of rulings included a few unexpected outcomes.
Yahoo News spoke with Paul Collins, professor of legal studies at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, about some of the most surprising — or surprisingly liberal — decisions of the term.Plaintiffs argued that Alabama's state congressional map, which was drawn from 2020 census data, had just one majority-Black district when it could have had two, in violation of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, which bars discriminatory voting practices based on race.
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