Posted on 02/08/2022 1:06:21 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court’s decision to halt efforts to create a second mostly Black congressional district in Alabama for the 2022 election sparked fresh warnings Tuesday that the court is becoming too politicized, eroding the Voting Rights Act and reviving the need for Congress to intervene.
The Supreme Court’s conservative majority put on hold a lower court ruling that Alabama must draw new congressional districts to increase Black voting power. Civil rights groups had argued that the state, with its “sordid record” of racial discrimination, drew new maps by “packing” Black voters into one single district and “cracking” Black voters from other districts in ways that dilute their electoral power. Black voters are 26% of Alabama’s electorate.
The outcome all but ensures Alabama will continue to send mostly white Republicans to Washington after this fall’s midterm elections and applies new pressure on Congress to shore up voter protections after a broader elections bill collapsed last month.
Alabama Republicans welcomed the court’s decision. “It is great news,” said Rep. Mo Brooks who is running for the GOP nomination for Senate. He called the lower court ruling an effort to “usurp” the decisions made by the state’s legislature.
Voting advocates see the arguments ahead as a showdown over voting rights they say are being slowly but methodically altered by the Roberts court.
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Stop posting this.
“the state, with its “sordid record” of racial discrimination”
not lately if they mean white discrimination against blacks.
Anytime @$$ press or any other leftist media (but I repeat myself) talks about “voting rights,” what they mean is the right of the elite overlords to create and count votes in secret to achieve whatever result they deem best.
No AP... YOU’Re the ones sparking alarm.
““voting rights,” what they mean is the right of the elite overlords to create and count votes in secret to achieve whatever result they deem best.”
BINGO.
In this case they mean that the Republicans can’t draw a district map based on the 2020 census to undo the horrible gerrymandering the Dims did after a prior census. In the past the Dims created a couple of extra Dim districts by drawing a district map with a lot of chaotic tentacles that resembled a squashed octopus. The new Republican drawn district map looks more like a crude quilt with a few districts geometrically smaller to account for denser populations, but for the most part they’re not weird shapes with arms of some districts reaching out into other districts to add to the Dim controlled District count.
bttt
It has become nothing but an "Elect Democrats Act".
That record was created decades ago, under Democrats.
The article also ignores the elimination of GOP districts in New York and California.
You see, gerrymandering is only bad when it is done under Republican control. When done under communist control, anything is acceptable.
If you want to end racial discrimination stop discriminating by race.
Where is there a similar concern about gerrymandering in New York?
It would seem that the Black voters have packed themselves into the area where they live . . .
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