Post AzAcU1CJpcRk2ruFlI by Nonilex@masto.ai
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(DIR) Post #AzAaS58S1LyXlo2ui8 by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-10-13T14:56:28Z
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#SCOTUS takes up #Republican attack on #VotingRightsAct in case over #Black representationA Republican attack on a core provision of the #VRA that is designed to protect racial minorities comes to SCOTUS this week, more than a decade after the justices knocked out another pillar of the 60-year-old #law.#gerrymandering #RepresentationMatters #VotingRights https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-voting-rights-race-louisiana-348260f08099d087bcde4a93140aa8b2
(DIR) Post #AzAaY9GbZZuWJykjce by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-10-13T14:57:33Z
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In arguments Wednesday, lawyers for #Louisiana & the #Trump admin will try to persuade the justices to wipe away the state’s second majority Black congressional district & make it much harder, if not impossible, to take account of #race in #redistricting.“Race-based redistricting is fundamentally contrary to our Constitution,” Louisiana AG Elizabeth Murrill wrote in the state’s Supreme Court filing. #law #SCOTUS #ActivistCourt #VRA #gerrymandering #RepresentationMatters #VotingRights
(DIR) Post #AzAar6D1AMCoL76xf6 by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-10-13T15:00:59Z
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The conservative-dominated court, which just two years ago ended #AffirmativeAction in college admissions, could be receptive. At the center of the legal fight is Chief Justice #JohnRoberts, who has long had the landmark #CivilRights law in his sights, from his time as a young lawyer in the Reagan-era #DOJ to his current job.#law #SCOTUS #ActivistCourt #VRA #VotingRights #gerrymandering #RepresentationMatters #Trump #WhiteSupremacy
(DIR) Post #AzAb55sTC9WHMkAo8u by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-10-13T15:03:30Z
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“It is a sordid business, this divvying us up by race,” #JohnRoberts wrote in a dissenting opinion in 2006 in his first major #VotingRights case as chief justice.In 2013, Roberts wrote for the majority in gutting the landmark law’s requirement that states & local governments with a history of #discrimination, mostly in the South, get approval before making any election-related changes.#law #SCOTUS #ActivistCourt #VRA #gerrymandering #RepresentationMatters #Trump #WhiteSupremacy
(DIR) Post #AzAbAifmNljp8Rv6Jc by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-10-13T15:04:32Z
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“Our country has changed, & while any racial discrimination in voting is too much, Congress must ensure that the legislation it passes to remedy that problem speaks to current conditions,” #JohnRoberts wrote [from his #WhitePrivilege perch].#law #SCOTUS #ActivistCourt #VRA #VotingRights #gerrymandering #RepresentationMatters #Trump #WhiteSupremacy
(DIR) Post #AzAbEUJBjMhpk99Mae by peachfront@toot.community
2025-10-13T15:05:09Z
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@Nonilex i swear it's 2025 & they'll do anything in this f'n state from having a Black person's vote equal to a white person's vote, i'm so disgustedthe state is almost 40% Black, these people deserve more than 1 out of 6 representatives
(DIR) Post #AzAbTAXVVurkm4qeFU by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-10-13T15:07:52Z
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The challenged provision relies on “current conditions”Challenges under the provision known as Section 2 of the #VRA #law must be able to show current racially polarized voting & an inability of minority populations to elect candidates of their choosing, among other factors.“Race is still very much a factor in current voting patterns in the state of Louisiana. It’s true in many places in the country,” said Sarah Brannon, deputy director of the ACLU’s #VotingRights Project. #SCOTUS
(DIR) Post #AzAbhze0Iv7HKLxJSq by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-10-13T15:10:33Z
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The #Louisiana case got to this point only after #Black voters & #CivilRights groups sued & won lower court rulings striking down the first congressional map drawn by the state’s #GOP-controlled Legislature after the 2020 census. That map created just one Black majority district among 6 House seats in a state that is ⅓ #Black.#law #SCOTUS #ActivistCourt #VRA #VotingRights #gerrymandering #RepresentationMatters #Trump #WhiteSupremacy
(DIR) Post #AzAbro8rvL4IY94Xz6 by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-10-13T15:12:19Z
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#Louisiana appealed to #SCOTUS buteventually added a second majority Black district after the justices’ 5-4 ruling in 2023 that found a likely violation of the #VotingRightsAct in a similar case over Alabama’s congressional map.#JohnRoberts & Justice Brett #Kavanaugh joined their 3 more liberal colleagues in the #Alabama outcome. Roberts rejected what he described as “Alabama’s attempt to remake our section 2 jurisprudence anew.”#law #VRA #VotingRights #RepresentationMatters #WhiteSupremacy
(DIR) Post #AzAc6FLDavjwxcjXzU by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-10-13T15:14:56Z
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That might have settled things, but a group of #white voters complained that #race, not #politics, was the predominant factor driving the new #Louisiana map. A 3-judge court agreed, leading to the current #SCOTUS case.Instead of deciding the case in June, the justices asked the parties to answer a potentially big question: “Whether the state’s intentional creation of a second majority-minority congressional district violates the Fourteenth or Fifteenth Amendments to the US #Constitution.”#law
(DIR) Post #AzAcKFTjseJ3RPObmS by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-10-13T15:17:27Z
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Those amendments, adopted in the aftermath of the Civil War, were intended to bring about political #equality for #Black Americans & gave #Congress the authority to take all necessary steps. Nearly a century later, Congress passed the #VotingRightsAct of 1965, called the crown jewel of the #CivilRights era, to finally put an end to persistent efforts to prevent Black people from voting in the fmr states of the Confederacy.#law #SCOTUS #ActivistCourt #VRA #RepresentationMatters #WhiteSupremacy
(DIR) Post #AzAcU1CJpcRk2ruFlI by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-10-13T15:19:14Z
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A second round of arguments is rare at the Supreme CourtThe call for new arguments sometimes presages a major change by the high court. The #CitizensUnited decision in 2010 that led to dramatic increases in independent spending in US #elections came after it was argued a second time.#law #SCOTUS #ActivistCourt #VRA #VotingRights #gerrymandering #RepresentationMatters #Trump #WhiteSupremacy
(DIR) Post #AzAcYuoP07wlgj3Rgm by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-10-13T15:20:06Z
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“It does feel to me a little bit like #CitizensUnited in that, if you recall the way Citizens United unfolded, it was initially a narrow First Amendment challenge,” said Donald Verrilli, who served as the Obama admin’s top #SCOTUS lawyer & defended the #VotingRights #law in the 2013 case.#ActivistCourt #VRA #gerrymandering #RepresentationMatters #Trump #WhiteSupremacy
(DIR) Post #AzAcmtsHHdCepoXHbE by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-10-13T15:22:38Z
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Among the possible outcomes in the #Louisiana case, Verrilli said, is one in which a majority holds that the need for courts to step into #redistricting cases, absent [proof of] intentional #discrimination, has essentially expired. #Kavanaugh raised the issue briefly 2 years ago.#SCOTUS has separately washed its hands of partisan #gerrymandering claims, in a 2019 opinion that also was written by #JohnRoberts.#law #ActivistCourt #VRA #VotingRights #RepresentationMatters #Trump #WhiteSupremacy
(DIR) Post #AzAd2WuERnWsETu1g0 by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-10-13T15:25:28Z
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Restricting or eliminating most claims of racial #discrimination in #federal courts would give #state legislatures wide latitude to draw districts, subject only to state constitutional limits.A shift of just one vote from the #Alabama case would flip the outcome.With the call for new arguments, #Louisiana changed its position & is no longer defending its map.#law #SCOTUS #ActivistCourt #VRA #VotingRights #gerrymandering #RepresentationMatters #Trump #WhiteSupremacy
(DIR) Post #AzAd7ZWI9lMHms6pJg by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-10-13T15:26:23Z
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The #Trump admin joined on #Louisiana’s side. The #DOJ had previously defended the #VotingRights #law under administrations of both major political parties.#law #SCOTUS #ActivistCourt #VRA #gerrymandering #RepresentationMatters #WhiteSupremacy
(DIR) Post #AzAe1DieOjAqOGQPYm by jamesmarshall@sfba.social
2025-10-13T15:36:24Z
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@Nonilex apparently they're not asking whether the intentional *prevention or destruction* of such a district violates those Amendments. :/
(DIR) Post #AzAhkF6eO3qbaOoK00 by cwdolunt@dice.camp
2025-10-13T16:18:08Z
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@Nonilex Democracy without minority representation is two wolves and a sheep deciding what to have for dinner.