Alabama Just Told the Supreme Court to Screw Off
townhall.com
“Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Brett Kavanaugh aligned with the court’s liberals in affirming a lower-court ruling that found a likely violation of the Voting Rights Act in an Alabama congressional map with one majority Black seat out of seven districts in a state where more than one in four residents is Black,” reported the Associated Press in June. “The state now will have to draw a new map for next year’s election.”
The new map must have two majority black districts, the edict handed down by the nation’s highest court. A special session of the state legislature was gaveled in the Heart of Dixie, but the new map didn’t have a second majority-black district. A move that many view as flipping off the Supreme Court.
Libs are pissed.
“Alabama Republicans are intentionally drawing political retention maps at the expense of Black Alabamians — in defiance of the Supreme Court and the Alabama district court. It is a continuation of the state’s long, sordid history of disenfranchising Black voters,” she said, promising to challenge the maps in court.
The court left wiggle room in the decision. Of course the losing party is going to exploit it. You just have to make a minor change and let it work back through the courts.
LOL....The inefficiency of the process is half of the game.
That said it sounds like some sort of ethnic preference to require something be made up of a majority of a single ethnicity.
Take CT for example, there are about 35% of CT voters there who are white Republicans, but there are no Republican representatives in congress from CT so should SCOTUS rule that 1/3 of the congressional districts in CT be majority white Republican?