SCOTUS deal major blow to GOP Gerrymandering in N.C.

[hazlnut]

Justices Reject 2 Gerrymandered North Carolina Districts, Citing Racial Bias


Other federal courts are already telling the worst states to get their shit straight BEFORE more law suits come flooding in.

A new day in America?

Just to be clear - BOTH parties do this. However the GOP has taken it to an evil racist art form.

The decision was handed down by an unusual coalition of justices, and was the latest in a series of setbacks for Republican-led legislatures. In recent cases concerning legislative maps in Alabama and Virginia, as well, the Supreme Court has insisted that packing black voters into a few districts — which dilutes their voting power — violates the Constitution.

Republicans in the North Carolina legislature denied that race was the predominant factor in redrawing the boundaries of the two districts under review. In one of them, though, they said, they had made some use of race.

The lawmakers said they had tried to comply with the Voting Rights Act, which in some settings requires that black voters be concentrated in numbers sufficient to provide them with an opportunity to elect their preferred candidates. But critics of the voting map said the legislature was actually trying to diminish the number of districts in the state that could be won by Democrats.

Did Thomas finally figure out he is black?

 

[Little-Acorn]

Isn't it cute how little hazelnut keeps pretending that only Republicans gerrymander?

Strange, I don't recall ever hearing him protest when Democrats drew the silliest districts you ever saw to squeeze out a few more votes.

 

[martybegan]

Justices Reject 2 Gerrymandered North Carolina Districts, Citing Racial Bias


Other federal courts are already telling the worst states to get their shit straight BEFORE more law suits come flooding in.

A new day in America?

Just to be clear - BOTH parties do this. However the GOP has taken it to an evil racist art form.

The decision was handed down by an unusual coalition of justices, and was the latest in a series of setbacks for Republican-led legislatures. In recent cases concerning legislative maps in Alabama and Virginia, as well, the Supreme Court has insisted that packing black voters into a few districts — which dilutes their voting power — violates the Constitution.

Republicans in the North Carolina legislature denied that race was the predominant factor in redrawing the boundaries of the two districts under review. In one of them, though, they said, they had made some use of race.

The lawmakers said they had tried to comply with the Voting Rights Act, which in some settings requires that black voters be concentrated in numbers sufficient to provide them with an opportunity to elect their preferred candidates. But critics of the voting map said the legislature was actually trying to diminish the number of districts in the state that could be won by Democrats.

Did Thomas finally figure out he is black?


https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/22/...th-carolina-congressional-districts.html?_r=0

So I guess they will also now break up all those Dem created Majority Hispanic and Majority Black districts, right?

 

[martybegan]

Isn't it cute how little hazelnut keeps pretending that only Republicans gerrymander?

Strange, I don't recall ever hearing him protest when Democrats drew the silliest districts you ever saw to squeeze out a few more votes.

I have a feeling they are going to HATE this decision when it is applied to Democratic controlled districting processes.

 

[NYcarbineer]

Justices Reject 2 Gerrymandered North Carolina Districts, Citing Racial Bias


Other federal courts are already telling the worst states to get their shit straight BEFORE more law suits come flooding in.

A new day in America?

Just to be clear - BOTH parties do this. However the GOP has taken it to an evil racist art form.

The decision was handed down by an unusual coalition of justices, and was the latest in a series of setbacks for Republican-led legislatures. In recent cases concerning legislative maps in Alabama and Virginia, as well, the Supreme Court has insisted that packing black voters into a few districts — which dilutes their voting power — violates the Constitution.

Republicans in the North Carolina legislature denied that race was the predominant factor in redrawing the boundaries of the two districts under review. In one of them, though, they said, they had made some use of race.

The lawmakers said they had tried to comply with the Voting Rights Act, which in some settings requires that black voters be concentrated in numbers sufficient to provide them with an opportunity to elect their preferred candidates. But critics of the voting map said the legislature was actually trying to diminish the number of districts in the state that could be won by Democrats.

Did Thomas finally figure out he is black?

So I guess they will also now break up all those Dem created Majority Hispanic and Majority Black districts, right?

Which ones in North Carolina are those?

 

[NYcarbineer]

NC Republicans got busted for RACISM, plain and simple.

Remember that the next time you hear RWnuts around here claim that the GOP is not racist.

 

[martybegan]

Justices Reject 2 Gerrymandered North Carolina Districts, Citing Racial Bias


Other federal courts are already telling the worst states to get their shit straight BEFORE more law suits come flooding in.

A new day in America?

Just to be clear - BOTH parties do this. However the GOP has taken it to an evil racist art form.

The decision was handed down by an unusual coalition of justices, and was the latest in a series of setbacks for Republican-led legislatures. In recent cases concerning legislative maps in Alabama and Virginia, as well, the Supreme Court has insisted that packing black voters into a few districts — which dilutes their voting power — violates the Constitution.

Republicans in the North Carolina legislature denied that race was the predominant factor in redrawing the boundaries of the two districts under review. In one of them, though, they said, they had made some use of race.

The lawmakers said they had tried to comply with the Voting Rights Act, which in some settings requires that black voters be concentrated in numbers sufficient to provide them with an opportunity to elect their preferred candidates. But critics of the voting map said the legislature was actually trying to diminish the number of districts in the state that could be won by Democrats.

Did Thomas finally figure out he is black?

So I guess they will also now break up all those Dem created Majority Hispanic and Majority Black districts, right?

Which ones in North Carolina are those?

How about the ones in NY or California specifically designed to get a Minority elected?