The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 on April 29 that Louisiana's congressional map is an unconstitutional racial gerrymander and raised the bar for proving voting rights violations under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act — now requiring proof of intentional discrimination rather than just discriminatory effect. The decision strikes down protections that had prevented states from diluting minority voting power and could prompt Republican-controlled states to redraw majority-minority districts, potentially costing Black Democrats congressional seats. Civil rights groups say the ruling effectively guts a landmark 1965 law, while the Trump White House hailed it as protecting equal protection by preventing race-conscious redistricting to remedy discrimination. The Ballotpedia fact-check rates this as 'mixed' because while the core ruling is accurate, the framing of whether Section 2 is 'dead' depends on whether you measure formal legal text versus practical enforceability.