Sounds like good news, may have been helpful before redistricting.
Back when the rats had the Southern legislatures forcing them to draw Black districts helped us beat White rats in other seats, but now we have them and this law could be in our way.
Good to know Roberts hasn’t gone full tilt traitor ***hole.
” Good to know Roberts hasn’t gone full tilt traitor ***hole.”
Well, we are being literally terrorized by Obamacare. He got the big job done.
The ruling does not ban minority-majority districts, most of which are in states not covered by pre-clearance. If a state tried to, say, split up the Memphis area into two 35%-black CDs (which likely would elect two white Democrats), the DOJ or the courts could block it under Section 2 of the VRA just as they always could (and since TN has never been a covered state, they couldn’t have used Section 5 anyhow).
And whileit is true that preclearance was a sword that forced states to create minority-majority districts, which resulted in RAT legislatures being forced to bleach surrounding districts in the ‘90s, which helped the GOP immensely in the covered states, preclearance has been a shield that has allowed GOP legislatures to claim that they were forced to draw 60%-black (and thus 75%-Democrat) districts that, in reality, they wanted to draw because it helped them win surrounding districts. The NC GOP couldn’t have drawn 10 GOP CDs to only 3 RAT CDs had it not drawn 2 black-majority districts.