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(DIR) Post #AzEgddQEGDAFeR5qnA by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-10-15T14:24:37Z
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#SCOTUS is hearing arguments Wednesday over a core provision of the #VotingRightsAct that is designed to protect racial minorities.Lawyers for #Louisiana & the #Trump admin [the first admin ever to challenge the law] will try to persuade the justices to wipe away the state’s 2nd majority Black congressional district & make it much harder, if not impossible, to take account of #race in #redistricting.#law #VotingRights #VRA #CivilRights #ActivistCourt #WhiteSupremacy https://apnews.com/live/supreme-court-voting-rights-arguments-updates?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2025-10-15-Live+updates
(DIR) Post #AzEgsO5dXzMyRXUpEG by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-10-15T14:27:18Z
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Roberts & #Kavanaugh are the ones to watchAlong with the three liberal justices, #JohnRoberts & Brett Kavanaugh were part of a surprising decision two years ago that required #Alabama to redraw its congressional districts to benefit Black voters and led to the new map in #Louisiana as well.The outcome likely will be different if either justice votes differently this time around.#SCOTUS #law #VotingRights #VRA #CivilRights #ActivistCourt #WhiteSupremacy
(DIR) Post #AzEh2HiU69g5ZXO0O0 by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-10-15T14:29:05Z
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4 lawyers will present arguments to the courtBut only one is defending the #Louisiana congressional map with 2 majority #Black districts.That will be #CivilRights lawyer Janai Nelson, representing the Black voters who sued when the state initially produced a map with just one majority Black district.#SCOTUS #law #VotingRights #VRA #ActivistCourt #WhiteSupremacy
(DIR) Post #AzEh9NoNpppwVFWvfU by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-10-15T14:30:21Z
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The other lawyers are the #Trump administration’s deputy solicitor general, Hashim Mooppan, #Louisiana Solicitor General Benjamin Aguiñaga & Edward Greim, the lawyer for the #white voters who sued over the map with 2 majority #Black districts.Louisiana switched sides after the court ordered new arguments.#SCOTUS #law #VotingRights #VRA #CivilRights #ActivistCourt #WhiteSupremacy
(DIR) Post #AzEhLIqO89XcZT9StM by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-10-15T14:32:27Z
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Arguments underway in #SCOTUS #VotingRightsAct case#JohnRoberts first called on Janai Nelson of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund to present her argument. Nelson is representing Press Robinson & other #Black #Louisiana voters.Nelson argues her opponents “seek stagging reversal of precedent that would throw maps across the country into chaos.”#law #VotingRights #VRA #CivilRights #ActivistCourt #WhiteSupremacy
(DIR) Post #AzEhUsYshcTvxBWs4W by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-10-15T14:34:13Z
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#ClarenceThomas has been questioning section 2 almost since he joined the court in 1991The questioning begins with Thomas. His long-held view that drawing districts with #race in mind violates the #Constitution. Until now, that view has never commanded a majority of the court.#SCOTUS #law #VotingRights #VRA #CivilRights #ActivistCourt #WhiteSupremacy
(DIR) Post #AzEhfQgGhezCfU10Ns by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-10-15T14:36:08Z
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Early debates center on 1986 Gingles rulingJustices questioned Nelson on the “Gingles test,” which dates from a 1986 court ruling resulting in the invalidation of North Carolina legislative districts & yielded more single-member districts in state legislatures.“You look at how different races of voters vote & whether they vote in a way that is polarized,” Nelson said, responding to a question about considering partisan & race in drawing districts.#SCOTUS #law #VotingRights #WhiteSupremacy
(DIR) Post #AzEhhZMLPJ4iACiTIG by FinchHaven@sfba.social
2025-10-15T14:36:31Z
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@Nonilex "The questioning begins with Thomas. His long-held view that drawing districts with #race in mind violates the #Constitution."Also Clarence Thomas:"I've got mine, too bad so sad you can't get yours."
(DIR) Post #AzEhtQJarMbBaW59Y8 by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-10-15T14:38:38Z
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“We’re talking about racially polarized voting that is above 84%, which is more than what this court found in Thornburg v. Gingles in 1986,” Nelson said.A bit of political/legal jargon repeatedly came up early in Wednesday’s voting rights oral arguments.“Packing & cracking” refers to a practice by the party in power, which tries to pack Black voters into condensed areas, then divide them.#SCOTUS #law #VotingRights #VRA #CivilRights #ActivistCourt #WhiteSupremacy
(DIR) Post #AzEiAOkvuRY1fwxqDY by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-10-15T14:41:42Z
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When it comes to redrawing districts in #Louisiana, the argument by plaintiffs is that #Republicans are seeking to condense the #Black vote then dilute it by dividing them among districts.Justice Jackson brings up a 2023 case from #Alabama where #SCOTUS upheld the #VotingRightsAct.Nelson’s argument seems to suggest, “We not revisit the determination that we made just 2 years ago,” Jackson said.“That is absolutely correct,” Nelson responded.#law #CivilRights #ActivistCourt #WhiteSupremacy
(DIR) Post #AzEiHRIgqbc7au6xMm by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-10-15T14:43:02Z
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#Kavanaugh, one of the key justices to watch in this case, questions whether there might be a point where the country no longer needs to take #race into account in drawing voting districts.“The issue, as you know, is that this court’s cases, in a variety of contexts, has said that race-based remedies are permissible for a period of time … but that they should not be indefinite & should have an end point,” he said.#SCOTUS #law #VotingRights #VRA #CivilRights #ActivistCourt #WhiteSupremacy
(DIR) Post #AzEiSOAKqJNf3cQN72 by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-10-15T14:45:00Z
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In a back-and-forth with Nelson about time limits, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson said that the #VotingRightsAct section in question, “doesn’t need a time limit, because it’s not doing any work other than just pointing us to the direction of where we might need to do something.”Nelson said it would be “reckless” to determine, “somehow if Section 2 is no longer needed simply because it has been so successful in rooting out racial discrimination in voting.”#SCOTUS #law #VotingRights #VRA
(DIR) Post #AzEimpAU9rKWazEska by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-10-15T14:48:42Z
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Asked by Justice #Sotomayor to delineate differences between the current case & a 2023 decision that dealt with affirmative action, Nelson argued that the prior case “involved the diversity rationale involving an admissions process with a university, not a statute.”In 2023, #SCOTUS struck down #AffirmativeAction in college admissions, declaring race cannot be a factor & forcing institutions of higher education to look for new ways to achieve diverse student bodies.#law #VotingRights
(DIR) Post #AzEiqAxZaqaj3AnVVA by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-10-15T14:49:18Z
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The court’s conservative majority effectively overturned cases reaching back 45 years in invalidating admissions plans at Harvard & the University of North Carolina, the nation’s oldest private & public colleges, respectively.#SCOTUS #law #VotingRights #VRA #CivilRights #ActivistCourt #WhiteSupremacy
(DIR) Post #AzEj1zKwdKECTdMVYe by Dawilson999@sfba.social
2025-10-15T14:51:24Z
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@Nonilex I can imagine Kavanaugh saying to his buddies “I don’t even think about someone’s race anymore, is that even a thing?”, and then laughing out loud.
(DIR) Post #AzEjUB1ukhdWqntzZw by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-10-15T14:56:30Z
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Now the justices will hear from J. Benjamin Aguiñaga, #Louisiana’s solicitor general. The state is no longer defending the disputed map.#SCOTUS #law #VotingRights #VRA #CivilRights #ActivistCourt #WhiteSupremacy
(DIR) Post #AzEkDgKZDtkIxZKDo0 by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-10-15T15:04:46Z
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#Gorsuch appeared skeptical of Nelson’s argument, pressing her on how & when race can be used in the drawing of maps. His questions cut to the heart of the questions the justices are considering today.“You’re saying sometimes acceptable for a federal district court to order a map that intentionally discriminates on the basis of race?” he asked. The #Louisiana maps at issue today weren’t drawn by a judge, but courts can order maps re-drawn under the #VRA.#SCOTUS #law #VotingRights #CivilRights
(DIR) Post #AzEkMjlDq9P6Ch6vjs by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-10-15T15:06:24Z
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Nelson pushed back. It’s not #discrimination for states to keep race in mind as they draw voting districts to comply with the #VRA & ensure representation for minority votes, she argued.Under questioning from Justice Elena #Kagan, Nelson describes as “catastrophic” the impact of Secton 2 of the #VotingRightsAct ceasing to prevent vote dissolution, including in legislative districts beyond #Congress.#SCOTUS #law #VotingRights #VRA #CivilRights #ActivistCourt #WhiteSupremacy
(DIR) Post #AzEkU0gtICuojrYL6O by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-10-15T15:07:43Z
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“We only have the diversity that we see across the South, for example, because of litigation that forced the creation of opportunity districts under the #VotingRightsAct,” Nelson said.“It is an intervention that has been crucial to diversifying leadership & providing an ability of minority voters to have an equal opportunity to participate in the process, she adds.#SCOTUS #law #VotingRights #VRA #CivilRights #ActivistCourt #WhiteSupremacy
(DIR) Post #AzEkb4IwFu0XyPiOZs by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-10-15T15:08:59Z
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Then an important caveat: “But it also isn’t a permanent remedy. It corrects itself over time, & it’s only triggered when those extreme conditions exist.”Benjamin Aguiñaga is now arguing for the state. He’s the state’s solicitor general and is considered a rising star in conservative legal circles. He’s defending the states position that could bring major changes to the #VotingRightsAct.#SCOTUS #law #VotingRights #VRA #CivilRights #ActivistCourt #WhiteSupremacy
(DIR) Post #AzEkjbOZ6npav3PrI8 by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-10-15T15:10:30Z
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“The #Constitution does not tolerate this system of of government-mandated racial balancing,” Aguiñaga said. “I respectfully but firmly resist the premise that this comes to the court on a finding of specific discrimination by the state.”Questioning Aguiñaga about the role of race in #redistricting, #Sotomayor says it’s always a factor.#SCOTUS #law #VotingRights #VRA #CivilRights #ActivistCourt #WhiteSupremacy
(DIR) Post #AzEkwdp5OT92DI2Ro8 by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-10-15T15:12:53Z
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Of the case’s 6 #white plaintiffs, #Sotomayor said that “no one’s stopping them from participating in the voting process,” adding that “the state is stopping #Black voters from doing that in many districts, because it’s packing them into areas that whites overwhelm them.”Beginning his remarks, the #Louisiana solicitor general opened with the suppositions of what he called a “stereotyping system” that assumes one #Black voter would vote like another.#SCOTUS #law #CivilRights #WhiteSupremacy
(DIR) Post #AzEl8wwa81VAzUPhvE by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-10-15T15:15:06Z
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Justice #Sotomayor is pressing #Louisiana’s lawyer about the state’s change in position from the first iteration of the case. The state previously told the court that lawmakers drew congressional boundaries primarily with #politics in mind, not #race. The map protected high-profile lawmakers, including Speaker #MikeJohnson, a Republican whose district is in the state.#SCOTUS #law #VotingRights #VRA #CivilRights #ActivistCourt #WhiteSupremacy
(DIR) Post #AzElJghMrv3dnAPxfk by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-10-15T15:17:03Z
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The justices set one hour for today’s argument. We’ve passed the one-hour mark and with four lawyers arguing it will likely extend much longer.#SCOTUS #law #VotingRights #VRA #CivilRights #ActivistCourt #WhiteSupremacy
(DIR) Post #AzElJjMYxjCM3VhtA0 by FinchHaven@sfba.social
2025-10-15T15:16:59Z
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@Nonilex "“The #Constitution does not tolerate this system of of government-mandated racial balancing,” Aguiñaga said."It should be pointed out that conservatives' beloved #Constitution did not include anyone but white male Anglo-Saxon Christians as citizens in the first placeA minor detail that conservatives always seem to miss #SCOTUS #Law #VotingRights #VRA #CivilRights #ActivistCourt #WhiteSupremacy
(DIR) Post #AzEmlZaezS4ToD8nRY by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-10-15T15:33:08Z
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Justice #Kagan is pointing out that Section 2 of the #VotingRightsAct is not aimed at preventing #racial #discrimination that comes as an effect of #redistricting, regardless of its intent by map drawers.“Section 2 is not about intentional discrimination. Section 2 is about effects,” Kagan says.#SCOTUS #law #VotingRights #VRA #CivilRights #ActivistCourt #WhiteSupremacy
(DIR) Post #AzEmmGNhtUGAWUPYiu by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-10-15T15:33:25Z
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“Our duty of candor requires, requires us to give the court our honest answer to that question,” Louisiana Solicitor General Benjamin Aguiñaga, said. “The race-based redistricting that you’re now objecting to is redistricting designed to remedy a specific identified, proved violation of law.”#SCOTUS #law #VotingRights #VRA #CivilRights #ActivistCourt #WhiteSupremacy
(DIR) Post #AzEmo7K8Xajd0icpcm by sheilasmall@mastodon.world
2025-10-15T15:33:43Z
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@Nonilex @Compassionatecrab keep in mind that when Clarence Thomas looks in the mirror he sees a white man.
(DIR) Post #AzEmvcB0EIiuj2vbRg by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-10-15T15:35:07Z
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#Kavanaugh *again* comes back to the question of whether the country might come to a point where it no longer needs to take #race into account when drawing voting districts.Aguiñaga, the Louisiana solicitor general, essentially argues that we’re there already [oh really?]:“I think the warning bells have been sounding for decades, & I think that’s a long enough notice for anybody involved.”#SCOTUS #law #VotingRights #VRA #CivilRights #ActivistCourt #WhiteSupremacy
(DIR) Post #AzEnDJEpNebLCa9eD2 by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-10-15T15:37:45Z
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In an animated discussion to close up Aguiñaga’s arguments, Justice #Jackson asked him to specify where in §2 another minority district was laid out as a potential solution.As the #Louisiana solicitor general repeatedly referenced prior court interpretation of §2 as seeking to settle matters of “racial injustice,” Jackson interjected to note that such cases were “so tied up w/race because that’s the initial problem.”#SCOTUS #law #VotingRights #VRA #CivilRights #ActivistCourt #WhiteSupremacy
(DIR) Post #AzEnKRpdpMg3skmHxI by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-10-15T15:39:36Z
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“It is a separate question as to how we go about remedying that, & the extent to which we need to use #race as a remedy,” Justice #Jackson added. “That’s the question we’re here on today.”Up next is attorney Edward Greim for Phillip Callais & other #white #Louisiana voters.#SCOTUS #law #VotingRights #VRA #CivilRights #ActivistCourt #WhiteSupremacy
(DIR) Post #AzEneSzTEIv7GbvA4O by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-10-15T15:43:12Z
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Earlier, Justice #Kavanaugh gave #Louisiana’s lawyer an opportunity to push back on the #NAACP lawyer’s warning of “catastrophic” implications if the court strikes down §2 & the possibility that none of Louisiana’s 6 congressional districts would be majority-minority.The state’s lawyer says, “I don’t know what our legislature would do,” but adds, “I don’t think the sky is going to fall.”#SCOTUS #law #VotingRights #VRA #CivilRights #ActivistCourt #WhiteSupremacy
(DIR) Post #AzEntXGnbJkQspDBke by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-10-15T15:45:57Z
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Edward D. Greim, a partner at the Kansas City firm Graves Garrett Greim, who is representing the #white voters from #Louisiana who challenged the map, urges the justices to act in time to allow new maps in the #2026election. [of course he does]#SCOTUS #law #VotingRights #VRA #CivilRights #ActivistCourt #WhiteSupremacy
(DIR) Post #AzEp0iYq7Tcxsndepk by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-10-15T15:58:24Z
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I think the biggest problem with this guy‘s argument is that he is continuously arguing that all Black people vote democrat in Louisiana and that’s just bullshit. He’s saying that because all Black people vote Democrat then you don’t need a separate test for racial redistricting and political research redistricting they’re exactly the same is his argument, but sorry that’s just bullshit.#SCOTUS #law #VotingRights #VRA #CivilRights #ActivistCourt #WhiteSupremacy
(DIR) Post #AzEpeJkPnIbYVcw4DQ by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-10-15T16:05:36Z
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This was Hashim Mooppan representing the #Trump administration in support of #Louisiana & #white voters arguing all #Black people vote #Democrat #SCOTUS #law #VotingRights #VRA #CivilRights #ActivistCourt #WhiteSupremacy
(DIR) Post #AzEpfV6b3Giu1YsJQO by peteriskrisjanis@toot.lv
2025-10-15T16:05:46Z
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@Nonilex I see we continue proud tradition of vibes driven evidence
(DIR) Post #AzEqd27xv5whWeu1Uu by opethminded@mstdn.social
2025-10-15T16:16:31Z
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@Nonilex “Vote democratic” that is, unless you’re intending to indicate your allegiance to the GOP to us.
(DIR) Post #AzEqvlC16g24VQj9V2 by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-10-15T16:19:58Z
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One factor courts consider in deciding whether states need to re-draw their maps is whether people tend to vote together, the trend referred to as “racially polarized voting.”It’s part of how judges decide whether minority voters can cast their ballots for a candidate of their choice.Mooppan argues that #Louisiana voters didn’t have big differences by #race, so the districts were drawn instead with #politics in mind – something #SCOTUS has said is fine.#law #VotingRights #ActivistCourt
(DIR) Post #AzErFzbvD9rJ0uUXya by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-10-15T16:23:35Z
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Mooppan, #Trump administration’s lawyer calls the voting map in #Louisiana a “reverse partisan gerrymander” based on race because #Black voters in the state overwhelmingly back #Democratic candidates. He suggests that in a #Republican-dominated state like #WestVirginia, white #Democrats do not get congressional districts drawn to give them an opportunity to elect their candidates of choice [cuz the Trump admin really cares about white Dems🙄]#SCOTUS #law #VotingRights #VRA #CivilRights
(DIR) Post #AzErWrrhGJzZujuumm by not2b@sfba.social
2025-10-15T16:26:37Z
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@Nonilex That's so untrue that in parts of the deep South, some white people use "Democrat" as a code for "Black".
(DIR) Post #AzEriy3K5CveZz7n28 by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-10-15T16:28:51Z
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Sorry, have to laugh right now as #AmyConeyBarrett says to Mooppan than it is a “big ask” to reconfigure #Gingles because its a 40 year old precedent.Is she serious?Can you say #RoeVWade?#SCOTUS #hypocrisy #law #VotingRights #VRA #CivilRights #ActivistCourt #WhiteSupremacy
(DIR) Post #AzEsUxQZi4DmXbsroG by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-10-15T16:36:57Z
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Janai Nelson president of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund is back up. Again, she is the only lawyer before the court arguing for maintaining section 2 of the VRA as it is. There are 3 lawyers arguing against her, 1 each for the State of #Louisiana, the #Trump admin, & #white voters in Louisiana.#SCOTUS #law #VotingRights #VRA #CivilRights #ActivistCourt #WhiteSupremacy
(DIR) Post #AzEswLS2UyJYrrd0pk by Barbramon1@mas.to
2025-10-15T16:42:27Z
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@Nonilex Hilarious that West Virginia was used as an example here because it is one of the most Caucasian states in the US. 95% white.
(DIR) Post #AzEu79UxNamuw5i556 by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-10-15T16:55:38Z
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A key part of the #VotingRightsAct, the 1965 #CivilRights landmark, appears at risk after arguments in a case from #Louisiana before #SCOTUS on Wednesday. It is at least possible that the court will rule unconstitutional a provision allowing states to use #race as a factor in drawing electoral maps.But even if the #law survives its encounter with the justices, it faces a second significant challenge, from #NorthDakota. The court will consider whether to hear an appeal in that case in November.
(DIR) Post #AzEuIQPop30maZgLcO by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-10-15T16:57:40Z
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The #Louisiana case heard Wednesday raises the possibility that #SCOTUS will rule that the #law, in seeking to protect minority voters, runs afoul of a *conservative* understanding of the #14thAmendment, one that forbids the government from making distinctions based on #race.In the #NorthDakota case, the US Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit ruled in July that only the government, not voters or other private parties, can sue to enforce the voting law.#VotingRights #VRA #CivilRights
(DIR) Post #AzEufzeBztbsWEdxMO by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-10-15T17:01:56Z
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If #SCOTUS ends up agreeing with the 8th Circuit, it would upend #VotingRights #litigation nationwide. According to a supporting brief filed by voting rights historians last year in a different case, 93% of challenges under the provision since 1982 were brought by private plaintiffs. It is very unlikely that the #Trump admin would sue to enforce the law in most voting controversies.#law #VRA #CivilRights #ActivistCourt #WhiteSupremacy
(DIR) Post #AzEujQJfIckc6Fg4R6 by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-10-15T17:02:33Z
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The case, Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians v. Howe, was brought by 2 tribes & several voters. It challenged a state legislative map that they said denied #NativeAmerican voters an #equal opportunity to elect candidates of their choice.#SCOTUS paused the 8th Circuit’s ruling in July. 3 members of the court — Justices #ClarenceThomas, Samuel #Alito & Neil #Gorsuch — noted dissents. It takes 4 votes to grant review.#law #VotingRights #VRA #CivilRights #ActivistCourt #WhiteSupremacy
(DIR) Post #AzFEHFTO1EEzRf4EAC by joshisanonymous@h4.io
2025-10-15T20:41:22Z
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@Nonilex How insane does someone have to be to think that racial inequality was solved decades ago?