The Supreme Court handed Democrats a significant defeat today in the ongoing redistricting wars. In a 6 to 3 decision, the justices ruled that Louisiana’s court-ordered congressional map, which created a second majority-minority district, was an unconstitutional racial gerrymander not required under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act. Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act was intended to prohibit blatant racial discrimination in the redistricting process. But, like many well-intentioned laws, it has been radically redefined by leftist judges and implemented in ways that never were intended. Writing for the court’s majority, Justice Samuel Alito declared: