Trump lauds ‘brilliant’ Alito for authoring Voting Rights Act decision 

President Trump praised U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito on Wednesday for authoring the court’s landmark decision to limit a central provision of the Voting Rights Act. 

“Today’s 6-3 Supreme Court decision in the Callais case is a BIG WIN for Equal Protection under the Law, as it returns the Voting Rights Act to its Original Intent, which was to protect against intentional Racial Discrimination,” the president wrote on Truth Social. “Thank you to brilliant Justice Samuel Alito for authoring this important and appropriate Opinion.”

Alito was nominated to the high court by President Bush in 2005, and he is part of the court’s conservative majority. 

The Supreme Court struck down a new majority-Black congressional district in Louisiana. All three justices in the court’s liberal minority joined a dissent authored by Justice Elena Kagan.

Proponents of the state map had defended the new district lines under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, which outlaws voting practices that........

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