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Did Supreme Court Just Kill Dems’ Efforts To Racially Gerrymander Midterms?
It Sure Did
Did Supreme Court Just Kill Dems’ Efforts To Racially Gerrymander Midterms? It Sure Did
This is what the party fears the most.
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In a decision that shouldn’t have surprised anyone, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Democrats can no longer create safe electoral fiefdoms based on race to win elections, calling it “racial gerrymandering.” It’s about time.
The ruling essentially “neuters,” as some put it, Section 2 of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. PJ Media scribe Matt Margolis called the decision “one of the most consequential redistricting decisions in a generation.” That’s not hyperbole. And it was long overdue.
While still upholding the landmark Voting Rights Act, a 6-3 conservative majority found that a redrawing of Louisiana’s congressional map to include a second majority-black district violated the 15th Amendment.
However, “In striking down a Louisiana voting map as a racial gerrymander,” the New York Times noted, “the Court opened the door for other states to redraw maps.”
Other media jumped in, some saying the decision “guts” or “eviscerates” the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (it does no such thing; it simply follows the actual language of the bill and of the Constitution’s 15th Amendment).
Can screaming allegations of “racism!” be far behind?
The winner for greatest hyperbole (so far) goes to Esquire, which wrote: “Medgar Evers and Martin Luther King Jr. and Viola Liuzzo did not die just for the conservative majority to commit this heartless act of political vandalism.”
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One person, one vote. That’s how Americans and the Constitution see it. Not, “my block of racialized voters, against yours.” Is that a country anyone wants to live in?
Commentary:
This may be one of the most consequential Court decisions in my lifetime. In the best way possible.
The “Great Society Act” was passed in the same manner.
The problem was that the Democrats owned the bureaucracy in DC so they wrote the rules that wound up making the blacks subservient to the Democratic Party. Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan spoke forcefully against it accurately predicting exactly what we see today. More poverty, destruction of the black family etc. Fortunately with Trump and the grownups in charge we are reversing it.
Unfortunately, too many graduates from our “liberal arts” institutions would be shocked to find out that their political party fought a war not to abolish slavery, but to KEEP it!
Democrats are shrieking and their masks are completely coming off, revealing them to be the supreme racists they are.
They'll just start the process all over again using bought lower court judges issuing injunctions, then move onto a higher court. it’s all a dog and pony show. The Democrats have the courts, so someone will step up and stop it. Where's Boasberg when they need him?
Meanwhile with their hair on fire Democrats are screaming foul.
