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Slate - 17 min 51 sec agoThe justices' Voting Rights Act decision will set off a scramble to rig elections for years to come.
Rightwing justices ordered Louisiana in 6-3 vote to redraw congressional maps in blow to the Voting Rights Act The US supreme court issued a landmark ruling on Wednesday, Louisiana v Callais, relating to how states draft congressional maps under the key civil rights statute, the Voting Rights Act. By a margin of 6-3, the rightwing justices who control America's top court ordered Louisiana to redraw congressional maps that gave African Americans the chance to elect their candidates of choice...
The Supreme Court's ruling on the Voting Rights Act could unleash another redistricting arms race.
Obama warns Supreme Court ruling guts Voting Rights Act protections, but critics note he backed Virginia redistricting favoring Democrats days earlier.
Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.) on Wednesday slammed the Supreme Court's ruling that Louisiana's addition of a second majority-Black congressional district was unconstitutional, which limited the scope of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, as "Jim Crow in new clothes." Court justices determined the district's addition to be an unconstitutional racial gerrymander in a 6-3 decision along...
Supreme Court ends racial gerrymandering; Dems criticized for biased Northeast maps and voter suppression claims.
California's powerful coastal watchdog suffered a major blow Thursday after the state Supreme Court unanimously ruled it overstepped its authority in a bombshell decision.
NPR - 1 hour 36 min agoLouisiana suspended its upcoming primaries for the U.S. House, following Wednesday's U.S. Supreme Court ruling that the state's congressional map is an "unconstitutional racial gerrymander."...
The Supreme Court just overturned Louisiana's congressional voting map, landing the latest blow to the landmark Voting Rights Act. Abbie VanSickle, a reporter covering the court for The New York Times, explains.
Louisiana Gov. Landry plans to delay the primary after a U.S. Supreme Court ruling this week striking down the state's newly drawn congressional map.
The Voting Rights Act was born out of the Civil Rights Movement to open the ballot box to Black Americans who were systematically denied access. So when those protections get narrowed, even subtly, it raises a bigger question: Are we moving toward a system that prioritizes "race-neutral" rules, even if the outcomes aren't equal?...
President Trump said Thursday that he spoke with Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee (R) about redistricting in the state to give Republicans a leg up in congressional races ahead of the November midterm elections. The conversation comes after a Wednesday Supreme Court decision limiting the scope of the Voting Rights Act provision that creates majority-minority districts....
Mother Jones - 3 hours 5 min agoOn Wednesday, the Supreme Court dealt a death blow to the country’s most important civil rights legislation, the Voting Rights Act of 1965 the law that defeated Jim Crow. For 100 years, from 1865 to 1965, Black people were systematically and actively excluded from participation in American democracy through racial violence, but more commonly through race-neutral […]...
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said Thursday that other states should redraw their congressional maps in the wake of the Supreme Court ruling that Louisiana's addition of a second majority-Black congressional district was an unconstitutional racial gerrymander. "The Supreme Court said that in Louisiana's case it was blatantly unconstitutional," Johnson told CNN's Manu Raju in...
Slate - 3 hours 21 min agoNo one is fooled by Justice Alito's act of cowardice, unless it is Justice Alito himself.
Scott Jennings critiques Obama's flip-flop on gerrymandering after the 2026 Supreme Court ruling.
ABC News - 3 hours 50 min agoThe Supreme Court ruled that Louisiana's map violated the Voting Rights Act.
Two nonpartisan election handicappers identified seven districts that could be at risk of being redrawn to favor Republicans following the Supreme Court's Wednesday decision limiting the scope of the Voting Rights Act provision that creates majority-minority districts. Both Cook Political Report and Sabato's Crystal Ball, which is published by the University of Virginia's Center for...
Babylon Bee - 4 hours 10 min agoWith yesterday's ruling, the United States Supreme Court officially declared it illegal to redraw voting districts based on the races of its citizenry. Sad!...
Daily Signal - 4 hours 11 min agoAfter the Supreme Court struck down a Louisiana congressional district on Wednesday as “unconstitutional racial gerrymandering,” the state will have to redo its congressional map, Gov. Jeff Landry said in a joint statement with Attorney General Liz Murrill. Before the Supreme Court ruling, a federal district court issued an injunction against using the current map....
Decider - 4 hours 17 min ago"That is disgusting, despicable, and I am devastated by this particular Supreme Court decision, even though Whoopi, we did know this was coming," she said on Thursday's episode of The View.
"The State is currently enjoined from carrying out congressional elections under the current map. We are working together with the Legislature and the Secretary of State's office to develop a path forward," Landry and state Attorney General Liz Murrill said in a joint statement.
Yesterday's Supreme Court ruling that ends racial gerrymandering has at least temporarily made the D...
In Louisiana v. Callais, the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that race-based gerrymandering of congressional districts is not a compelling governmental interest.
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