Posted on 05/15/2024 4:12:41 PM PDT by Round Earther
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Wednesday paved the way for Louisiana to use a congressional map in this year's election that includes two majority-Black districts.
The court granted emergency requests filed by an unlikely alliance of Republican state officials and civil rights groups, who were united in asking the high court to block a lower court ruling that invalidated the most recently drawn map. State officials had said they needed to have the map finalized by Wednesday to meet bureaucratic deadlines and avoid "disarray."
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What about brown districs?
What about yellow districts?
Why do only black people get this privilege.
What happens if a white person moves there? or are only blacks allowed in that district ?
It’s what the democrats want. Keep them in their place.
Here in NC there were lawsuits about a redistricting that created majority black districts as an attempt to somehow segregate the black vote. Or something.
During the Clinton administration, Janet Reno’s justice department sued NC trying to CREATE minority majority districts to make sure blacks got into Congress.
“It’s what the democrats want. Keep them in their place.”
It is the map the state legislature wanted.
I stop reading when “black” is capitalized.
The SCOTUS How to steal elections wing is at it again.
What about American districts?
Nothing in the Constitution that says a racial group has to have representation in Congress.
This map combines Baton Rouge and Shreveport with a thin sliver of land in between, 270 miles between the two cities. It is like putting socks on a rooster.
Now can they please s#itcan scum turncoat RINO Mike Johnson ?
Although details can vary, the usual effect of creating more black majority districts is to deprive Democrats of enough votes to win other districts. That is why the Republicans and civil rights groups were allied in the suit and Democrats were opposed.
“This map combines Baton Rouge and Shreveport with a thin sliver of land in between, 270 miles between the two cities. It is like putting socks on a rooster.”
That thin sliver is evidence of racial gerrymandering.
I believe gerrymandering for racial preferences is the only kind of gerrymandering the courts will allow today.
And that is the worst of all reasons.
Fine with me. Seems like the Democrat gets 90% in one district and the Republicans get 55% in all other districts.
The new district will include the black sections of Shreveport, which had been in Johnson’s district.
Agree 1000% Capitalizing black is a not so subtle hint that blacks are special and deserve special treatment and respect. There’s *no* reason to capitalize “black” *or* “white”.
That is the truth of this. The Democrats have been so succesful in putting these kind of districts together that they bagn losing other areas because they had become Republican heavy.
But the Democrats have to keep fighting like this so they can keep the blacks voting the way they want them to.
That’s how it works. When the Left realized that the effect was to their disadvantage, they took to describing it pejoratively as “bleaching” districts so they would vote GOP for lack of blacks. Yet most aspiring black democrats liked the idea of having more chances to get elected. And solidly conservative and capable black Republicans like US Rep. Byron Donalds can and do get elected in solidly white GOP districts.
Who’s to say blacks in those districts are going to vote Demonrat....hopefully blacks have gotten the memo that others are getting. That being the Demonrats are NO friend to them.
It is the I-49 district. It follows the I-49 corridor.
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