DOJ to Enforce SCOTUS Ruling Nationwide, All States With Racially Gerrymandered Districts

The Justice Department announced this week that it will enforce the Supreme Court’s decision on gerrymandering districts in every state that has such a district. The announcement comes just days after the court struck down Louisiana’s congressional map, ruling its existing map was an unconstitutional racial gerrymander.

This week, Senator Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., urged the Justice Department to act on the Supreme Court’s ruling in Louisiana. Writing in a letter, “the department should not wait for private litigants to identify every race-based district one by one.” Assistant Attorney General for the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division, Harmeet Dhillon, responded in part, writing, “Senator — we are ON IT!”

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