U.S. justices rule against Virginia Republicans in black voters case

The Supreme Court on Monday let stand a lower court ruling that Virginia's Republican-led legislature unlawfully considered race when drawing U.S. congressional districts by packing black voters into one of them in a move opponents said diluted black electoral clout. The case focused on the composition of a majority-black U.S. House of Representatives district held by Democrat Bobby Scott, the only black member of Virginia's congressional delegation.