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Republicans Could Gain Nearly 200 State Legislative Seats in Voting Rights Case, Report Finds
A ruling weakening Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act could reduce majority-minority districts from 342 to 202 and cost Democrats about 191 state legislative seats, analysis shows.
- On Monday, Fair Fight Action and Black Voters Matter Fund released an analysis finding Republicans could gain nearly 200 state legislative seats across the South.
- Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act restricts racial gerrymandering and Alabama and 13 other GOP states argued earlier this year that it overly constrains map-drawing.
- At the state legislative level Democrats could lose about 191 seats, and Republicans could draw an additional 19 U.S. House seats as majority-minority districts fall from 342 to 202.
- A sweeping court decision could allow 10 GOP-controlled Southern state legislatures to redraw districts, potentially diluting minority voting power, Lauren Groh-Wargo warned, impacting Black representation.
- The Supreme Court's conservative majority appears likely to severely weaken Section 2, oral arguments were held earlier this year, and some states have passed controversial new congressional maps this year, with unclear prospects for mid-decade redraws.
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Louisiana SCOTUS case could change state legislatures across the South
Republicans could gain nearly 200 state legislative seats across the South if the U.S. Supreme Court guts a key provision of the federal Voting Rights Act, Louisiana Illuminator writes. A new analysis finds that the bulk of the gains would be concentrated in 10 GOP-controlled state legislatures in Southern states. The analysis was produced by Fair Fight Action, a Georgia-based progressive voting rights group, in partnership with Black Voters Ma…
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