WASHINGTON—The Supreme Court on Monday upheld findings that North Carolina lawmakers drew state legislative districts that discriminate against black voters, marking another defeat for a Republican-controlled General Assembly whose election laws repeatedly have been invalidated for reducing minority political power. The justices without comment let stand a lower court decision saying lawmakers created 28 majority-black districts without adequate justification. By packing African-Americans into a relative handful of 170...

Source: Wall Street Journal June 05, 2017 22:41 UTC