SCOTUS rules gerrymandered louisiana maps to stand for coming mid-terms

[butters]

conservative judges voted 6 to dems 3, to allow the gerrymandered voting districts to stand—through the midterms. Despite African-Americans making up almost a third of the voting population there, the new maps reduce the chance for this subset of voters to have equal representation. I'm sure, given their new-found sense of unaccountability, the SCOTUS judges in question will have a great time embracing their biases, voting for what they deem best for (predominantly) white, evangelical, racist, sexist, anti-lgbtqist, science-deniers, cult-minded conspiracy theory fruitloops.

A federal trial court, applying longstanding Supreme Court precedents holding that the Voting Rights Act does not permit such racial gerrymanders, issued a preliminary injunction temporarily striking down the Louisiana maps and ordering the state legislature to draw new ones that include two Black-majority districts. Notably, a very conservative panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit denied the state’s request to stay the trial court’s decision — a sign that Louisiana’s maps were such a clear violation of the Voting Rights Act that even one of the most conservative appeals courts in the country could not find a good reason to disturb the trial court’s decision.

As the Fifth Circuit explained, current law typically forbids maps that dilute a particular racial group’s voting power, at least when that group is “sufficiently large and compact to form a majority” in additional congressional districts, when it “votes cohesively” and when “whites tend to vote as a bloc” to defeat the minority group’s preferred candidates.

Nevertheless, the Supreme Court voted 6-3 along party lines to stay the trial court’s injunction, effectively reinstating the gerrymandered maps. The Court’s order is only one page, and it provides no substantive explanation of why the Court’s Republican appointees voted to effectively strip Black Louisianans of half of their representation in the US House of Representatives.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/poli...pc=U531&cvid=32e175e5d03b461bf2d77847cdbd6312

 

[Dribble]

They ain't stupid. They know if they wrote the truth they would be noticed

 

[HisArpy]

Show me a district map that hasn't been gerrymandered and I'll begin to consider being mildly concerned about elections having consequences.

 

[Wrong Element]

The swing from right to far-right is happening precisely because they don't fear public backlash, and they don't fear it because of previous decisions regarding voting which further entrench Republican power. This has all occurred in a particular order for a particular reason.

 

[rockcasbah]

The swing from right to far-right is happening precisely because they don't fear public backlash, and they don't fear it because of previous decisions regarding voting which further entrench Republican power. This has all occurred in a particular order for a particular reason.

Same thing happened when the USA went to the left for a few decades.

Relax….You’ll probably still be able to wear your pretty lingerie underneath.

 

[mayfly13]

The swing from right to far-right is happening precisely because they don't fear public backlash, and they don't fear it because of previous decisions regarding voting which further entrench Republican power. This has all occurred in a particular order for a particular reason.

I live overseas so I might have got it wrong.
I'm currently IN SHOCK of both Russia-Ukraine, and of how Far Right your Republicans really are.

They had their far-Right leanings, but to me your Republicans never came across as so far off the planet, as they do now.
But your Leftists are radicalised too....