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Conservative Supreme Court Justices May Gut Voting Rights Act, Threatening Rights Of Minority Voters
The court’s conservative majority signals it may overturn protections against racial gerrymandering, risking a major reduction in Black voter representation, analysts warn.
- On Wednesday, the U.S. Supreme Court spent the morning exploring whether to legalize racial gerrymandering, with its conservative majority appearing poised to strike down Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act.
- After the 2020 census, Louisiana's redistricting prompted the lawsuit as plaintiffs said it diluted Black voters' ability, leading a federal district court to order a second majority-Black district which Louisiana adopted in 2023.
- The contested Louisiana map contains five ultra-safe Republican seats and one ultra-safe Democratic seat, while six appellate judges found the state packed and cracked Black voters and rejected seven alternative maps.
- If Section 2 falls, analysts say Republicans could flip about a dozen House seats by eliminating majority-minority congressional districts, drastically reducing Black congressional representation in the South.
- The Supreme Court has long treated enforcing the Voting Rights Act as a compelling interest, but Justice Brett Kavanaugh, Associate Justice, signaled limits on race-based remedies and Congress retains enforcement powers, urged by Raphael Warnock , U.S. Senator.
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‘An exercise of the Republicans justifying their racist positions’
‘The Supreme Court left no doubt: it will gut the Voting Rights Act’Elie Mystal at The NationRepublican justices are “going to declare the Voting Rights Act inert and allow the dilution of Black voting rights through racist gerrymandering,” says Elie Mystal. “Some analysts believe that this Supreme Court ruling could result in as many as 19 congressional seats being shifted to the Republicans.” The Democratic Party “cannot survive the loss of Bl…
Voting Rights Act: SCOTUS Poised to Gut Law & Weaken Electoral Power of Black Americans
The Supreme Court appears ready to strike down Section 2 of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, threatening the equal representation of Black voters, and potentially greenlighting Republican gerrymandering ahead of the 2026 midterm election. The case concerns Louisiana’s six congressional districts, two of which are majority-Black, in approximate proportion to the Black population of the state. A previous map that gave Black voters only one district in w
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