The Supreme Court ... of Black-majority districts in Louisiana, Alabama and Georgia increased Black voter participation by up to 6% and reduced the voter turnout gap between Black and white ...

But the changes effectively maintained the status quo of five Republican-leaning majority white districts and one Democratic-leaning majority Black district. Civil rights advocates won a lower court ...

the court’s official portrait of the first chief justice, John Jay, shows him in a robe of black and red with white borders. The story, perhaps apocryphal, is that Thomas Jefferson himself ...