The Voting Rights Act required Republicans to protect 12 majority-minority districts in the House of Delegates. '”The court ruled that’s exactly what the House did, setting a strict threshold of 55 percent for black voters in each of the districts. And by going too far, the maps actually diluted black voters’ voices by drawing them into the same districts from nearby contested districts. With a district comprised of just 46-percent black voters, she was still reliably winning elections, suggesting the lower threshold didn’t threaten black voters’ ability to elect representatives. Republicans insisted that race wasn’t the primary factor they used to draw the districts, but the court didn’t believe them.