Posted on 09/26/2023 7:45:20 AM PDT by CFW
The Supreme Court on Tuesday handed a defeat to Alabama Republicans for the second time in three months, rejecting their latest attempt to use a congressional map that includes only one majority-Black district.
The court in two related applications refused emergency requests from Republican state officials to block lower court rulings that invalidated the new map. Lower court proceedings to approve a new map are still ongoing.
The decision was in line with the Supreme Court ruling against the state in June that reaffirmed a key provision of the landmark Voting Rights Act. There were no noted dissenting votes and the court did not explain its reasoning.
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I stand corrected.
The Court clearly desires to define any "Section II liability district" created by any legislature, not just Alabama, to be composed of an actual "minority-majority" or "50 percent plus one" voting age population.
While the Court has dispelled unwieldy portions of the 1965 landmark voting rights legislation, in recent years, a majority on the high bench seem agreed upon not allowing so-called "minority influence" districts to continue to dilute definitions under federal law.
Sounds like systemic racism.
Gerrymandering is only OK when DEMOCRATS do it... DUH!
https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/AL/PST045222
That’s way off. Blacks are over 26 percent of the state.
Yep
Isn’t gerrymandering the issue?
Weirdly-, psychotically-shaped congressional districts?
Focusing on creating even one majority black district as a sine qua non goal in a given state would seem to bring with it a kind of institutionalized gerrymandering. Meaning that you MUST engage in gerrymandering, regardless of which of the two major political parties you lead in your state.
What do they want, all districts to be majority Black, and how about the math?
We have 5 of the 6 already. Anything we do will result in US losing at least one.
Would take a repeal of the VRA which was lawfully passed by Congress. Supremes made the right decision in light of VRA, much as I dislike it.
Districts for People
You are going to see an end to this black apportionment nonsense when the Hispanic Visigoths take over soon.
The Mexican drug cartel rulers are not going to have ANY WHITE GUILT what-so-ever when they force blacks to back of the bus. As Coach Prime likes to brag, We Is Coming (i.e. the barbarian horde realignment of the USA). /spit
My county here in Alabama has a lot of people, and is majority white, but surrounded by black counties. None of these have large numbers of people of any color. Our county might be bundled up with many black counties...
I’m not sure the numbers will work. I don’t mind voting for a black, but I’ll be damned if I’ll vote for a democrat, black or white.
I wish Southern blacks would shake of the democrat plantation party. They share far more values with conservatives than liberals.
Good point.
Alabama Demographics According to the most recent ACS, the racial composition of Alabama was: White: 66.8% Black or African American: 26.5% Two or more races: 3.11% Other race: 1.72% Asian: 1.4% Native American: 0.43% Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander: 0.03%
Traitor John Roberts bails out the left again. Bret Kavanaugh has been worthless lately as well...
“This basically guarantees the loss of 1 GOP seat in the House next time ‘round.”
This LITERALLY guarantees the loss of 1 GOP House seat after 2024. The same thing, for the same reason, is VERY likely to happen in Louisiana and South Carolina (so the running total is -3).
They’re going to try it in Georgia and Tennessee too (another -1 for each of those).
New Democrat gerrymanders are likely coming before November of 2024 in Wisconsin (-2 at least) and New York (-3 at least and could be closer to -6) and Florida (-1 is the *best* case scenario).
The one and only place the GOP might attempt to offset this mass seizure of seats is in North Carolina, where they *should* be able to go +2:
a. if they ever get around to trying, and
b. if a Democrat court doesn’t stop them like it did last time (but has now been overruled)
In the end, “Speaker” McCarthy need not worry about all that pressure he’s been under lately; it is highly probable that he won’t be burdened with that job any longer once January, 2025 rolls around.
Unless, of course, there’s a “red wave” that’s a tad more effective than the one the Pollyannas fervently (and naively) believed 2022 was going to be.
Alabama’s black population is 26% of the total.
Alabama has 7 House seats. 26% of 7 is 1.82.
It’s not absurd for there to be 2 black majority House seats.
It’s also not absurd for there to be 1. Either ruling would be fair.
Unrestricted lawfare underway nationwide to rig the Congressional Districts for next year’s election.
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