The conservative majority will consider whether states are barred from considering race when they draw legislative districts aimed at complying with the 1965 law.
The conservative-majority Supreme Court on Wednesday will consider whether to eviscerate a key provision of the landmark Voting Rights Act in a congressional redistricting case from Louisiana.
The justices, who expanded the scope of the case over the summer, will hear oral arguments on whether states can ever consider race in drawing new districts while seeking to comply with Section 2 of the 1965 law, which was enacted against a backdrop of historic racial discrimination to protect minority voters.
The long-running dispute concerns the congressional map that Louisiana was required to redraw last year after being sued under the Voting Rights Act to ensure that there were two majority-Black districts. The original map only had one such district in a state where a third of the population is Black.
THIS is why you DON’T permit the politically-motivated to make districting decisions.
The absurd district-shapes in the US … it should be forced to use mathematically-smallest-periphery, or something, to break all that shit.
ANY system which consistently worked better than endless gerrymandering, would be better than this shit.
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The conservative majority controls everything (fuck you, Mitch McConnell), so consider the act gutted.
If there’s a way to make something more racist, mysogynistic, bigoted, and hateful the Cons will jump headfirst. Bet their salivating at the thought.
Disgusting un-american shitweasels
