Court blocks Louisiana's congressional map with a second majority-Black district
Court blocks Louisiana's congressional map with a second majority-Black district
The case is likely to end up before the Supreme Court in another test of the Voting Rights Act.
Pretty sure this will end up like the similar Alabama case in 2022. "Sure it illegally disenfranchises voters, but it would be unfair to fix it so close to an election. Go ahead and rig this election, but promise to change (not fix, just change) it after the election."
It seems like we are always to close to an election if the change being discussed would be positive.
Never too close to jam a conservative justice onto the Supreme Court though. Or trash part of the government on the way out.
Someone should do something
Gotta love the coding here.
R's: Can we be say... THIS racist in our districting?
Court: For the second time no.
I feel like the article didn't give me enough information. I think Louisiana was the state that got slapped down by a court for something or other racially discriminating in the past, but I didn't see mention of that so maybe it was another southern racist shithole like Alabama? Anyway, I guess this'll likely come round in a future news cycle. Maybe I'll learn more about it from an article then.
Yes that's what happened. One court slapped it down for unfairly reducing minority representation in violation of the voting rights act, so this map was drawn to increase minority representation. Now these two judges struck down the new map saying basically "I think it should be unconstitutional to consider race at all when drawing districts, even if it's to make sure they aren't being unfairly diluted, voting rights act is unconstitutional." It's supreme court bait to try and get them to strike down more of the voting rights act with their same reasoning they used to strike down affirmative action policies. If the supreme court decides to take this up eventually, I'd say the voting rights act days are numbered unfortunately with this court.
Thanks for clarifying. I'd say we're about fucked.