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Posted on 08/27/2025 4:51:14 PM PDT by Racketeer
WASHINGTON – Louisiana is now urging the U.S. Supreme Court to rule a key section of the Voting Rights Act unconstitutional, which would throw out the state's congressional map that has two minority-majority districts.
“The Constitution forbids sorting voters by race. And telling legislators drawing maps to think about race, but not think too much about race, is an untenable standard,” Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill said after releasing Wednesday afternoon a 58-page brief filed with the Supreme Court.
Louisiana had previously defended the maps, saying they had created them under protest when a federal judge ruled a previous map with one minority district unconstitutional. But, after the Supreme Court asked for arguments on whether Section Two of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 is constitutional, the state changed direction.
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If this is not overturned, what prevents a government entity to draw even more lines to make sure we have the "proper number of women, asians, latino or any other type of representation?
SCOTUS may have to do what is right, finally, and overturn it.
To me, how can you draw a district to reflect a particular party? That is unconscionably unconstitutional. The dems use the black as an excuse to gerrymander due to the high dem turnout of the black vote.
Chief Justice Roberts:
The Way to Stop Discrimination on the Basis of Race Is to Stop Discriminating on the Basis of Race
That’s exactly what they did here in Louisiana.
Shelly Dick, Middle District of Louisiana, Obama stooge.
Like when the idiot, Bonzo O’Bama sent a gang to gerrymander the crap out of Arizona. They broke a lot of backs and arms fitting approximately 8 injun rezes, and three state universities into one of our Deep red districts. The one I lived in. Voting wasn’t fun anymore. It was a crime.
Hoping SCOTUS will find disparate-impact liability unconstitutional, setting the stage to undermine its use in employment and housing liability.
It’s time.
Should never have happened in the first place.
the supreme court needs to throw out the one person one vote principle that a former supreme court just made up that prevents states from drawing districts with vastly unequal populations.
… under the direction order of Judge Dick(tator) the Appellate court, AND the Supreme Court under Roberts !
8/14 the appellate court struck again and demands 6 more House seats and 3 more Senate seats !
This mess is fully on the Supreme Court.
Louisiana jumped through Hoops to avoid the disaster last year.
The Fifth circuit gave them just into the new session to draw the maps !
Edwards did nothing on the way out the door.
Landry had to call a special session, get the legislature to agree in short order, to avoid the route.
Other wise the case was going back to Judge Dick(tator).
Dick(tator) had already ruled that the state had violated the VRA (they had not), so the case was just going to be the Dick(tator) drawing New Democrat friendly districts !
aka Dick(tator)
SCOTUS is going to overturn that provision of the VRA. It was always unconstitutional to require racial gerrymandering. The courts have just ignored that up to now.
The coming redistricting in numerous red states is going to cost the Democrats several seats in the House. Finally Republicans will be able to gerrymander just as hard as the Democrats have done in blue states.
Sans race, what gives any state the right to draw congressional district lines to compel a certain party, sex, or ethnicity to certain victory? There is none that I know of.
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