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Rightwing justices ordered Louisiana in 6-3 vote to redraw congressional maps in blow to the Voting Rights Act The US supreme court issued a landmark ruling on Wednesday, Louisiana v Callais, relating to how states draft congressional maps under the key civil rights statute, the Voting Rights Act. By a margin of 6-3, the rightwing justices who control America's top court ordered Louisiana to redraw congressional maps that gave African Americans the chance to elect their candidates of choice...
The Supreme Court's ruling on the Voting Rights Act could unleash another redistricting arms race.
Obama warns Supreme Court ruling guts Voting Rights Act protections, but critics note he backed Virginia redistricting favoring Democrats days earlier.
Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.) on Wednesday slammed the Supreme Court's ruling that Louisiana's addition of a second majority-Black congressional district was unconstitutional, which limited the scope of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, as "Jim Crow in new clothes." Court justices determined the district's addition to be an unconstitutional racial gerrymander in a 6-3 decision along...
Supreme Court ends racial gerrymandering; Dems criticized for biased Northeast maps and voter suppression claims.
California's powerful coastal watchdog suffered a major blow Thursday after the state Supreme Court unanimously ruled it overstepped its authority in a bombshell decision.
NPR - 21 hours 30 min agoLouisiana suspended its upcoming primaries for the U.S. House, following Wednesday's U.S. Supreme Court ruling that the state's congressional map is an "unconstitutional racial gerrymander."...
The Supreme Court just overturned Louisiana's congressional voting map, landing the latest blow to the landmark Voting Rights Act. Abbie VanSickle, a reporter covering the court for The New York Times, explains.
Louisiana Gov. Landry plans to delay the primary after a U.S. Supreme Court ruling this week striking down the state's newly drawn congressional map.
The Voting Rights Act was born out of the Civil Rights Movement to open the ballot box to Black Americans who were systematically denied access. So when those protections get narrowed, even subtly, it raises a bigger question: Are we moving toward a system that prioritizes "race-neutral" rules, even if the outcomes aren't equal?...
NPR - 22 hours 42 min agoThe state's highest court will now consider a deal that would allow the Onion to license the Infowars brand name and turn the show into a mockery of itself.
President Trump said Thursday that he spoke with Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee (R) about redistricting in the state to give Republicans a leg up in congressional races ahead of the November midterm elections. The conversation comes after a Wednesday Supreme Court decision limiting the scope of the Voting Rights Act provision that creates majority-minority districts....
Mother Jones - 22 hours 59 min agoOn Wednesday, the Supreme Court dealt a death blow to the country’s most important civil rights legislation, the Voting Rights Act of 1965 the law that defeated Jim Crow. For 100 years, from 1865 to 1965, Black people were systematically and actively excluded from participation in American democracy through racial violence, but more commonly through race-neutral […]...
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said Thursday that other states should redraw their congressional maps in the wake of the Supreme Court ruling that Louisiana's addition of a second majority-Black congressional district was an unconstitutional racial gerrymander. "The Supreme Court said that in Louisiana's case it was blatantly unconstitutional," Johnson told CNN's Manu Raju in...
Slate - 23 hours 15 min agoNo one is fooled by Justice Alito's act of cowardice, unless it is Justice Alito himself.
Scott Jennings critiques Obama's flip-flop on gerrymandering after the 2026 Supreme Court ruling.
ABC News - 23 hours 44 min agoThe Supreme Court ruled that Louisiana's map violated the Voting Rights Act.
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