The U.S. Supreme Court struck down race based voting districts. In its 6-3 decision, the Court declared Louisiana’s creation of a second majority-Black Congressional district is an unconstitutional racial gerrymander. The rationale is that political voting districts shouldn’t be based on racial characteristics. Supporters of race-based districting arguing that it gave minorities a political voice in the Jim Crow era. Justice Thomas, said in his opinion that he’d “go further and hold that [section two] of the Voting Rights Act does not regulate districting at all.” This opinion is significant because Thomas is black and experienced the brutal realities of racism as a young man. The case was brought by a group of self-described “non-African American” voters who argued that the policy was racist.