Posted on 06/08/2023 8:06:57 AM PDT by mooncoin
It’s also worth keeping in mind that the most recent appointee was chosen by an illegitimate President, which makes her appointment illegitimate. I would hope that when/if there is any accountability for that treasonous act, Brown’s appointment would be recognized as illegitimate and she would resign or be removed.
Given that they are requiring Alabama to draw two majority black districts, and there are only 7 districts to begin with, one of which is majority black, and the rest are held by pubs, I see no way around losing seats. Ditto for SC and LA.
I’d hope TN is safe—and perhaps they can draw even more blacks into Memphis, creating a district that somehow embraces bits and pieces of Memphis, Nashville, Chattanooga, and Knoxville, creating the greated Gerrymander ever.
Georgia, Florida, and North Carolina, on the other hand, could potentially use this to reduce democratic seats, but those aren’t the focus of the ruling. It would be interesting to apply this ruling to Maryland.
So, this just confirms whites are a bunch of racist and blacks are even more racist and will only vote for a black candidates. That a colorblind society is impossible. Blacks will vote black and white are incapable of voting for a Black candidate. Supremes justification, not mine.
They said they would not get involved in PA because it was a “state’s issue”.
Is everything corrupt?
What's germane is percentage of registered black voters, which is not addressed.
America is finished.
I expect conservative justices to be conservative, not just on one case.
Other than Dobbs, I’m still waiting to be impressed with our “Super Conservative” Supreme Court.
I’ll be holding my breath if they get ahold of a significant 2A case.
I think the general problem....the 7th district....big chunk of area west of Birmingham...is heavily black (57-percent). The only way to make this 2nd ‘out-of-thin-air’ black district....is by carving a chunk of the 7th off and giving it over to the 6th district (just east of Birmingham), which has 20-percent blacks at this point.
Or you could carve off enough of the 7th to give to the 1st (Mobile region), but their current black population is only at 28-percent....so it’d take another big chunk of black voters to rebuild the 1st, and thus lessen the strength of black voters in the 7th.
No matter how you do it....the 7th will be marginally black-voter based in the end, and thus lose it’s democratic ‘character’.
I wonder if NY, NJ, CA and other states will be under the same scrutiny?
And I’m hoping to win the Powerball.
My odds are better.
Or Deep State suborned them.
If so, don’t blame Trump.
Blame the people who submitted to Deep State.
Of course not.
Nothing is Trump’s fault.
And the only jerrymandering of which I know that is approved by the Supreme Court.
There would only be scrutiny in other places, if someone filed a lawsuit for the courts to consider.
Those three liberal states you mentioned, all have many minority members of Congress, so probably no lawsuits are pending.
Right now, AL7 combines Birmingham & Montgomery.
Per the plaintiffs on this lawsuit, Birmingham would be its own district (D+24) and Montgomery and Mobile would be connected to create a 2nd (D+11) with rest of the state averaging R+55.
SCOTUS said political gerrymandering is ok, so no.
*$%#^&$ to news stories about congressional redistricting that don’t bother to show the maps at issue.
I do not know my way around Alabama politics and redistricting issues, but I glanced at a map and I think the current 2nd and 6th districts look problematic. There are a couple of other oddities, but 2 and 6 have thin corridors connecting a larger and smaller block. Call them Adam Schiff districts: a pencil neck connecting a body and head.
I don’t know the ins and outs of those lines enough to comment, but they are visually suspect on the compactness and contiguity counts.
Has anyone, ANYONE read the decision and can point to a section they believe was in error by the majority or minority?
Because if not you’re just jacksssin’.
The current black district in Alabama is in the center of the state from Montgomery to the Mississippi border. This is the heaviest black population. To create another district will really take some fancy gerrymandering. They may have to redo the current district and run another from Birmingham to Mobile. It should be interesting. It will make the other districts deeper red. I live in the current district.
Alabama is 25% black, yet only 5% of the registered voters. Seems to me that they are over represented not under represented.
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