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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LMAO, so now Black districts will get outvoted half as many
times. Not that that is the goal, but these people have no
clue the insignificance of their edicts.
Judges?
The Constitutionality of this law has not ever been challenged. I pray it happens soon. An injured party needs to step up now!
Since nobody named Gerry is involved in the process and the district doesn’t look anything like a salamander, the dems get the the all clear on any charges of gerrymandering.
It’s federal law. Somebody decided a bill was needed. Ugh.
“But the Democrats have to keep fighting like this so they can keep the blacks voting the way they want them to.”
I don’t know if this will work for them.
Daily at work I hear middle class blacks speak up about how they are p.o.ed about the direction this country is going.
Most p.o.ed., black middle class moms!
Mad as hell...
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.
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Nice call.
That’s exactly why the democrats are opposed to this.
Not to be too negative, but it has worked for the last 80 years, since FDR and LBJ promised them manna from the government.
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