Schumer rips ‘awful’ Supreme Court Voting Rights Act ruling

Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) on Wednesday ripped what he called the Supreme Court’s “awful decision” to strike down a voting map in Louisiana, which critics cast as a serious blow to the 1965 Voting Rights Act. The court in a 6-3 ruling held that creating majority-minority districts can result in unconstitutional racial gerrymandering,…