In a 5 - 2 opinion by Justice Mariano - Florentino Cuéllar, the court concludes «the totality of relevant facts» — including that the jury ultimately included three African - Americans and that one challenged African - American prospective juror was replaced by another whom the prosecutor accepted — did not raise «an inference of discriminatory intent for the prosecutor's strikes.» (atthelectern.com)
But left undecided, until now, is whether it forbids policies that are designed and implemented without discriminatory intent but have some disproportionate effect (i.e., «disparate impact») based on race or some other legally protected class. (educationnext.org)
The findings of racially motivated mapmaking satisfied Democrats and minority rights groups, who are now pushing a separate federal court in Texas to determine that the voter ID law was also crafted with discriminatory intent. (fortune.com)