I feel like the article didn’t give me enough information. I think Louisiana was the state that got slapped down by a court for something or other racially discriminating in the past, but I didn’t see mention of that so maybe it was another southern racist shithole like Alabama? Anyway, I guess this’ll likely come round in a future news cycle. Maybe I’ll learn more about it from an article then.
Yes that’s what happened. One court slapped it down for unfairly reducing minority representation in violation of the voting rights act, so this map was drawn to increase minority representation. Now these two judges struck down the new map saying basically “I think it should be unconstitutional to consider race at all when drawing districts, even if it’s to make sure they aren’t being unfairly diluted, voting rights act is unconstitutional.” It’s supreme court bait to try and get them to strike down more of the voting rights act with their same reasoning they used to strike down affirmative action policies. If the supreme court decides to take this up eventually, I’d say the voting rights act days are numbered unfortunately with this court.
I feel like the article didn’t give me enough information. I think Louisiana was the state that got slapped down by a court for something or other racially discriminating in the past, but I didn’t see mention of that so maybe it was another southern racist shithole like Alabama? Anyway, I guess this’ll likely come round in a future news cycle. Maybe I’ll learn more about it from an article then.
Yes that’s what happened. One court slapped it down for unfairly reducing minority representation in violation of the voting rights act, so this map was drawn to increase minority representation. Now these two judges struck down the new map saying basically “I think it should be unconstitutional to consider race at all when drawing districts, even if it’s to make sure they aren’t being unfairly diluted, voting rights act is unconstitutional.” It’s supreme court bait to try and get them to strike down more of the voting rights act with their same reasoning they used to strike down affirmative action policies. If the supreme court decides to take this up eventually, I’d say the voting rights act days are numbered unfortunately with this court.
Thanks for clarifying. I’d say we’re about fucked.