petite6 Jokers Wild Reged: 08/14/06 Posts: 189906 This is perhaps the most significant Supreme Court race-related decision in modern history. While people will focus on Congress, this decision will dismantle thousands of districts electing 04/29/26 08:58 AM Edit Reply Quote representatives of minority communities at the state and local levels The decision says nothing about Louisiana's other majority-black district, but unless Louisiana doesn't see a partisan gerrymandering reason to cram African-Americans into the district, it is likely gone as soon as the state government can get around to another redraw This is relevant for Florida's vote on a new congressional map today. The current central Florida majority Hispanic district (predominately Puerto Rican) appears to be no longer protected by the VRA. DeSantis' map splits this community for partisan gerrymandering purposes Alito says potential plaintiffs would have to show that there was racially discriminatory intent in splitting the Puerto Rican community. That will be very difficult to show unless someone is dumb enough to just blurt it out We're likely to see the first causality of the Supreme Court's Callais decision today in Florida. It's almost as if someone leaked the ruling to Florida Republicans... Moving forward the Supreme Court has basically made only one viable redistricting reform pathway forward: change the process to independent commissions. Any criteria-based gerrymandering restrictions can be rationalized away to the god of partisan gerrymandering https://bsky.app/profile/electproject.bsky.social/post/3mkndlamzak2f Report Remind Me Link

Entire thread (Refresh) Subject Posted by Posted on the Supreme Court’s “now-completed demolition of the Voting Rights Act.” 6-to-3 vote in favor of white voters who challenged a Black-majority district in La. (People died for this right and now a 1 petite6 04/29/26 07:50 AM

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