Justice Elena Kagan wrote that the court's 6-3 decision makes a key provision of the Voting Rights Act "all but a dead letter" The Supreme Court struck another major blow to voting rights on Wednesday, ruling that a Louisiana congressional map drawn to protect minority voters was an unconstitutional form of racial gerrymandering. The map had been drawn in accordance with a key provision of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. The 6-3 ruling fell along ideological lines, with the court’s six conservatives ruling against the state’s congressional map. The decision narrows the acceptable interpretations of Section 2, the provision in the landmark civil rights legislation that prevents states from using the districting process to discriminate against voters on the basis of race.  In the court’s majority opinion , Justice Samuel Alito wrote that Section 2 “imposes liability only when the evidence supports a strong inference that the State intentionally drew its districts to afford minority voters less opportunity…