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Supreme Court strikes down race-based redistricting map in Louisiana
The Supreme Court's ruling on the legality of Louisiana's second black-majority Congressional district will have impacts throughout the south.
www.washingtonexaminer.com
The Supreme Court dealt a blow to race-based redistricting on Wednesday, finding that Louisiana’s second black-majority congressional district was created in violation of the Constitution, but stopping short of gutting Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act.
The dispute stems from a challenge by a group of voters who identified as “non African American” to a 2024 redistricting map adopted after a federal court invalidated the prior map for violating the Voting Rights Act. While the state’s revised map added a second majority-black district to address those concerns, the court ultimately found in a 6-3 decision that configuration crossed the line, ruling the new map constituted an unconstitutional racial gerrymander.
Comment:
The USSC has ruled against this before.
The Democrats in Texas also demanded racially segregated congressional districts in 1990s, and the USSC ruled against them.
The other states should also abolish their race based congressional district maps.
This will hurt the Democrat gerrymandering schemes.
