“If these are the kind of “black leaders” that (in the view of the New York Times) could be held back by the aftermath of the Callais decision, I can’t think of a much better result for America.”
Best line of the article after listing the grifters the VRA brought to Congress.
I live in this abomination:
"...Nevertheless, a rather obvious consequence of pre-Callais voting rights litigation and its mandates for these “majority-minority” districts has been that red states have been forced to create one or more such districts — which always go to Democrats — while blue states have never had any comparable mandate to carve out a few safe seats for Republicans. And thus, for example, Massachusetts, which gave 36% of its votes to Trump in 2024, somehow has a Congressional delegation consisting of 9 Democrats and no Republicans. Or there’s Maryland, where Trump got 34% of the 2024 vote, but the Congressional delegation is 7 Democrats and 1 Republican..."
It is hard to see exactly what the changes since 1931 as shown below compared to 2021 were for, but...in 2021, the changes pushed by the "Drawing Democracy Coalition" show a lot of monkeying around in the areas surrounding Boston:
The "Drawing Democracy Coalition" is, according to "MassVote" (A Leftist organization) "a collection of community organizations, civil rights lawyers, public policy advocates, data and mapping experts, and political scientists with the shared goal of ensuring the most equitable redistricting process possible
They are who you thought they were.