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Live Updates: Supreme Court Appears Poised to Upend Key Provision of Voting Rights Act
NY Times ^ | Oct 15, 2025 | Abbie VanSickle

Posted on 10/15/2025 12:35:31 PM PDT by BFW

Here’s the latest.

The Supreme Court appeared poised on Wednesday to upend a key provision of a landmark civil rights law by prohibiting lawmakers from using race as a factor in drawing voting maps, which could spark widespread redistricting efforts.

If the justices determine that lawmakers may not consider race in drawing districts, the repercussions for the country’s political balance could be sweeping, allowing Republican state legislatures to eliminate at least a dozen Democratic-held House districts across the South.

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Constitution/Conservatism; Government
KEYWORDS: abouttime; back2normal; finally; key2what; maps; race; reps; rightsawrong; scotus; seats; voting; vra
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The demoRATs will squeal and squeal like the little pigs they are... No more artificial demographics to bolster their illegal actions any more.....
1 posted on 10/15/2025 12:35:31 PM PDT by BFW
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To: BFW

Creating black districts is cheating....period.


2 posted on 10/15/2025 12:37:14 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: BFW

Where will the BLM riots be heaviest?


3 posted on 10/15/2025 12:37:56 PM PDT by Preachin' (I stand with many voters who will never vote for a pro abortion candidate.)
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To: BFW

To hear Justice Jackson squeal on and on about how blacks are “Disabled” and cant go to a voting booth and VOTE was absolutely RACIST but thats the lefts mentality that brainwashed black people for years, that they cant do for themselves they need Dems to tell them what to do


4 posted on 10/15/2025 12:38:19 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: BFW

I’m all for it. No reason to use race as a provision for this sort of thing anyway.


5 posted on 10/15/2025 12:38:37 PM PDT by oldtech
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To: BFW

Trump’s greatest strength- and he has a lot of them- is that he is able to ignore illegitimate complaints no matter how squealing and screeching they present themselves


6 posted on 10/15/2025 12:38:46 PM PDT by stanne (Because they were mesmerized by Obama, the man for whom this was named, whose name they left out of )
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To: Preachin'

“Where will the BLM riots be heaviest?”

That’s been figured out, and the guard is being put into place


7 posted on 10/15/2025 12:39:38 PM PDT by stanne (Because they were mesmerized by Obama, the man for whom this was named, whose name they left out of )
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Kavanaugh’s likely to vote for abolition of VRA.

Hear Kavanaugh’s question about Voting Rights Act during Supreme Court arguments

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcI5hvCx3QU

8 posted on 10/15/2025 12:41:18 PM PDT by SmokingJoe
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We have to think of doing something different on these maps.

Create strip district...in states longer than wide...from west end of state to east end of state....Illinois for example....so stacked.

For states wider than the length....

I'm talking straight lines....let them fall where they may to create districts with proportional population.

9 posted on 10/15/2025 12:42:33 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: BFW

My western PA district once lost a good Republican Congressman due to redistricting. They merged my part of town with a strong Blue district.


10 posted on 10/15/2025 12:42:56 PM PDT by Ciexyz (Prayers for America and Israel.)
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To: BFW

A podcaster (?) said this decision could cost the Democrats 19 congressional seats.


11 posted on 10/15/2025 12:45:21 PM PDT by Spok (If you really want to kill a good idea, give it to a committee. )
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That’s how the dems did it in Maryland.

Some of those districts look like metastatic melanoma paths.


12 posted on 10/15/2025 12:46:58 PM PDT by normbal (normbal. Non-native Tennessean.)
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To: BFW
PRAYING MUCH right now for this decision!!!! From my computer to GOD'S EARS!

May righteousness prevail!

13 posted on 10/15/2025 12:47:39 PM PDT by pollywog (" O thou who changest not....ABIDE with me")
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To: SmokingJoe

What’s her name is so bigoted regarding this case. Kavanaugh’s question was spot on.


14 posted on 10/15/2025 12:48:07 PM PDT by Mercat
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To: stanne

“Trump’s greatest strength- and he has a lot of them- is that he is able to ignore illegitimate complaints no matter how squealing and screeching they present themselves”

yep ... and he’s teaching a whole new generation of GOP candidates how to do that by his example ... already, it’s clear that JD Vance is hell on wheels, and Ron DeSantis was that way all along ...


15 posted on 10/15/2025 12:48:15 PM PDT by catnipman ((A Vote For The Lesser Of Two Evils Still Counts As A Vote For Evil))
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Be color blind! Treat everyone equally. Except when I don’t get my way!


16 posted on 10/15/2025 12:49:30 PM PDT by TornadoAlley3 ( I'm Proud To Be An Okie From Muskogee)
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Be color blind!


Free your mind
And the rest will follow

Be colorblind
Don’t be so shallow


17 posted on 10/15/2025 12:51:04 PM PDT by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
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To: catnipman

“yep ... and he’s teaching a whole new generation of GOP candidates how to do that by his example”

This is key


18 posted on 10/15/2025 12:51:30 PM PDT by stanne (Because they were mesmerized by Obama, the man for whom this was named, whose name they left out of )
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To: Sarah Barracuda
To hear Justice Jackson squeal on and on about how blacks are “Disabled” and cant go to a voting booth and VOTE was absolutely RACIST but thats the lefts mentality that brainwashed black people for years, that they cant do for themselves they need Dems to tell them what to do

And they are incapable of obtaining an identification card. How condescending can they be?

Requiring Voter ID and justification for absentee voting would destroy the left.

19 posted on 10/15/2025 12:51:34 PM PDT by ETCM (“There is no security, no safety, in the appeasement of evil.” — Ronald Reagan)
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To: Spok

If Republicans don’t push this CR to finish. Pressers at 10 everyday isn’t going to get it. We could lose 20 even gaining 19.


20 posted on 10/15/2025 12:51:55 PM PDT by TornadoAlley3 ( I'm Proud To Be An Okie From Muskogee)
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