Posted on 03/23/2025 9:40:17 PM PDT by RandFan
The Supreme Court is set to hear arguments Monday over the fate of Louisiana’s second Black-majority congressional district, in a pair of cases that could shape how state lawmakers can use race when drawing new congressional maps.
Parties in the case have urged the justices to clarify the “breathing room” states get between the statutory and constitutional requirements of drawing district lines, as part of the tangled court fights over the state’s redistricting efforts since the 2020 census.
On Louisiana’s first congressional map, a judge found the state violated the discrimination protections in the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and ordered the map redrawn. Then, on that second map, a separate court found the state violated the 14th Amendment’s prohibition on racial discrimination and ordered it redrawn again.
“Louisiana is tired,” the state said in its Supreme Court brief, citing the years of litigation over the racial gerrymandering claims.
The sides have asked for more sweeping decisions about how states can provide opportunities for minority voters to elect representatives of their choice — as required by the VRA — without those efforts emphasizing race so much they run afoul of the Constitution.
In one direction, Louisiana seeks a ruling that would mean federal courts could not review constitutional racial gerrymandering claims at all, similar to a Supreme Court ruling on partisan gerrymandering claims several years ago.
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If we made it illegal to count illegal aliens blue states would stop welcoming illegal aliens because they wouldn’t get as much money from the federal government. Counting illegal aliens gives them more money.
If they would peg representatives to say 1 every 200,000 in large part this problem would go away. The issue is that the number of reps is limited to 425.
My cynicism tells me they will rule 8-1 in favor of redistricting by race and the 1 holdout will be Clarence Thomas.
they limited it in the 40s? but yes the Congress should be bigger in proportion to population as envisioned
435
They’re ‘entitled’.
It’s the visuals. Then there’s the way they all vote in lock step-not good. The GOP could do its part by nominating more than a couple here and there. That way they could be diverse as diversity is a strength.
Sorry, posting from.a phone while riding a tour bus in China
This sounds like an “opinion” about how many angels can dance on the head of a pin.
Oh gee, like there’s nothing more important than that to rule on right now?
Roberts sucks!
I expect nothing good from the USSC anymore. They are too infiltrated.
SCOTUS has already decided on the issue of population census that the government should count ALL people, regardless their citizenship.
About time...just make parallel lines or something similar and stop playing games.
They drew a snake-like district that runs about 250 miles from Baton Rouge to Shreveport, connecting the two cities that have majority black populations. It is illogical, stupid, racist, and cowardly. Republicans did that when they were not required to do it.
I think most states operated this way in the early years of the nation.
How about stopping the rouge judges
They are useless and trust in USSC has totally collapsed! Roberts and Amy TDS has seen to that. The once powerful aura radiating from the SC has left the building and Roberts along with Barrett made it worse.
I am a victim of redistricting. A federal judge ruled that I must be represented by a black, low IQ, liberal, corrupt democrat. It burns me up. I live literally 100 yards from the highway that divides the districts. I have no representation. This guy does not care one iota about what I think. Any thought he has beyond how he can get rich is for the low IQ blacks who elected him.
Race cannot be used in redristicting. Unless it is used to give Blacks.
This is revealing how "civil rights" court precedents are really there to ensure more Democrats in the House, not to avoid discrimination.
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