The Voting Rights Act is antiquated and no longer needed. There isn't a single person in this country who is being denied the right to vote because of their race. The only reason Democrats are so hung up about racially gerrymandered districts is because they know they will easily win them 90% of the time. They're free seats in Congress they don't have to put money into.
You're wrong.
Elie Mystal laid bare the racism of both the current majority in the Supreme Court and inherent in so-called voter integrity measures. Mystal wrote an article in The Nation titled, “No Attack on Voting Rights Is Too Racist for This Supreme Court.” In this article, Mystal begins by citing Merrill v. Milligan. Merrill vs. Milligan is a redistricting case taken to the Supreme Court from the state of Alabama. The case was brought before the Supreme Court because Alabama used racial gerrymandering in its redistricting process. Racial gerrymandering is illegal, and according to Chief Justice Roberts in Shelby v. Holder, such gerrymandering is a thing of the past.
The black population of Alabama is twenty-five percent. Due to redistricting done after the 2010 Census, Alabama had a black legislative representation of fourteen percent. Alabama diluted black representation by creating one big majority-black district. Two State Senators with four voters filed a lawsuit requesting a change in redistricting to “afford African Americans an opportunity to elect candidates of their choice in at least two districts.”16 I don’t think I have to say much more than this is Alabama for you to understand the problem.
“In five of the six redistricting cycles since 1960, the U.S. Department of Justice or federal courts have found that Alabama’s legislative districts — congressional, state, or both — violate the rights of voters under the U.S. Constitution or the Voting Rights Act.”
- NAACP Legal Defense Fund
Shelby County is in Alabama, but the Supreme Court decided to gut provisions of the Voting Rights Act in 2013, even while Alabama used the 2011 map that diluted black representation. A district court determined that Alabama did employ racial gerrymandering in its 2021 redistricting plan. As a result of that ruling, the map drawn in the process was invalidated. In a five-to-four decision made on February 7, 2022, the Supreme Court of the United States of America decided to let Alabama maintain racially gerrymandered voting districts, thereby continuing the underrepresentation of blacks in state and federal legislatures. The five justices voting to allow racial gerrymandering in Alabama were: Alito, Coney-Barrett, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, and Thomas. Chief Justice Roberts was a temporary no.
They recently reversed their initial vote, but the point there is that in the 21st century, there are states still trying to subvert the Voting Rights Act..And no matter what you BELIEVE or FEEL, the facts show a different story.
It is tiring reading the trifling BS coming from you people on the right. Republicans also gerrymander, and this current discussion is about the president calling a governor asking him to re do districts. So the gerrymandering argument from you Repubicans is just like everything else you stand for,
DISHONEST AND DISINGENUOUS.
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