Though a long and winding fight last year Louisiana's voters got the fair map they deserved . Now the Supreme Court is not only going to try and take that away, but also try and knock out the last vestiges of the Voting Rights Act in its totality.
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Politico: Louisiana asks Supreme Court to gut Voting Rights Act and ban use of race in redistricting [[link removed]]
There's no way to sugarcoat this, John: Louisiana is asking the Supreme Court to gut the central provision of the Voting Rights Act and ban any use of race in redistricting.
In a legal brief filed this week, the state urged the Supreme Court to overturn a landmark 1986 ruling that established a legal test for when a voting map illegally dilutes minorities’ voter power. That ruling, Thornburg v. Gingles, has been understood for decades to require that states with significant communities of minority voters draw districts that fairly reflect their voting power.
Louisiana also told the Supreme Court it has made the decision not to defend the state’s current congressional map from 2024. That map contains two majority-Black districts among the state’s six House seats. This unusual move comes as the state claims it was " coerced " into complying with the Voting Rights Act.
This is exactly why the Supreme Court held this case over from last year. Chief Justice John Roberts has been working to gut the VRA for more than a decade. The VRA's provision against racial gerrymandering is one of the last major legs of the law standing.Just like the redistricting fights across the country, this is all about whether the party in power can choose their voters in order to stay in power in perpetuity.
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