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Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry plans to push back his state's May 16 primary to give state lawmakers time to redraw congressional maps there, after the Supreme Court struck down the current district lines in a decision with far-reaching consequences for control of Congress in 2026 and beyond...
The Supreme Court's ruling that a Black-majority voting district in Louisiana is unconstitutional adds to a long and dismal history of government attempts to limit the power of minority voters.
The Supreme Court's ruling that a Black-majority voting district in Louisiana is unconstitutional adds to a long and dismal history of government attempts to limit the power of minority voters.
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NPR - 2 hours 45 min agoThe Pentagon estimates the war with Iran has cost $25 billion so far. And, the Supreme Court ruled that Louisiana's 2024 election map was "an unconstitutional racial gerrymander."...
The Supreme Court ruled that Louisiana's current congressional map with two majority African American districts is unconstitutional, saying lawmakers allowed race to play a part in government decision making. Democrats blasted the ruling, arguing it weakens a key provision of the Voting Rights Act aimed at prohibiting discrimination on the basis of race. President Donald Trump called the decision a "big win" which comes as he's urged GOP controlled states to redraw their maps to...
Mother Jones - 2 hours 53 min agoThe Supreme Court's Republican-appointed majority would have you think that its latest gerrymandering decision is a mere tweak to the legal rules governing political map-drawing. No doubt hoping for mild headlines, the court's 6-3 opinion framed its holding as hewing to "the plain text" of the Voting Rights Act and "consistent with" the Fifteenth Amendment's […]...
Ruling has gutted provision intended to prevent racial discrimination in voting. Plus, oil tops $126 a barrel to reach highest level since 2022 Good morning. The US supreme court has gutted a major section of the Voting Rights Act through a landmark decision on Louisiana's congressional map, in a major upheaval in US civil rights law that threatens to weaken the voting power of minorities. How have lawmakers reacted? Terri Sewell and Shomari Figures, who are now at risk of losing their seats...
ABC News - 3 hours 13 min agoThe Voting Rights Act over its six decades became one of the most consequential laws in the nation's history, preventing discrimination against minorities at the ballot box and helping to elect thousands of Black and Hispanic representatives at all lev...
A federal court denied President Donald Trump's motion to rehear his $83 million defamation case, opening the path to a Supreme Court appeal.
More governors call for special sessions following supreme court's decision severely weakening Voting Rights Act Before the supreme court's decision severely weakening the Voting Rights Act came on Wednesday, some states had already begun initiating processes to redraw districts and gut Black voting power. Following the decision, more states followed, with governors calling for special sessions to redraw congressional districts, potentially before the midterms. Voting districts are typically...
I was a lead attorney in the Callais case. The court's decision will silence the voices of communities of color The supreme court on Wednesday paved the way for racial discrimination in voting, 60 years after Martin Luther King Jr and thousands of other movement leaders bled, marched and mobilized for Congress to outlaw it. This is a break-glass outcome for what was already a severely weakened Voting Rights Act (VRA), and it will reshape the future of political representation at all levels of...
Election analyst Sean Trende on the fallout from a major Supreme Court decision.
In today's issue: The Supreme Court's ruling further curtailing the Voting Rights Act (VRA) could spell trouble for Democrats' congressional representation in the South. The court's 6-3 decision Wednesday only directly strikes down the current congressional map for Louisiana, which had sued to protest the second Black-majority congressional district the state had been required to...
Nation Review - 3 hours 53 min agoThe Supreme Court rightly puts an end to the routine use of racial segregation in drawing legislative districts.
Latest ruling is culmination of Justices Roberts and Alito's campaign to slowly but surely strangle efforts to protect democratic rights of Black and other minority Americans The ruling from the US supreme court destroying one of the last pillars of the 1965 Voting Rights Act (VRA) marks the end of a long and painstaking campaign to roll back civil rights legislation by two titans of the court's rightwing majority, chief justice John Roberts and Samuel Alito. Acting as an unspoken double...
The Supreme Court struck down Louisiana's voting map as an unconstitutional racial gerrymander in a move that could make it harder for lawmakers to create majority-minority voting districts.
Senators in both parties say the Supreme Court has roiled the political landscape ahead of the midterm elections by effectively striking down majority-minority House districts as unconstitutional racial gerrymandering. Democrats vented their rage over a ruling they said would return the nation to the Jim Crow-era policies of the 1950s and early '60s, when Black...
Colorado has an independent redistricting commission that Democrats are now trying to undo.
People lining up to register to vote in Selma, Ala., in February 1965.
The US was not a true democracy before the Voting Rights Act. Wednesday's decision has essentially destroyed the law Is America a democracy? The term implies an equality of rights and dignity among citizens, a collective and uniform right of individuals to participate in self-government and to shape the laws that rule them. In that sense, the answer is no: though it has been a republic since its founding, America has only rarely been a true democracy, one where all citizens have the full right...
NPR - 5 hours 23 min agoBy weakening Voting Rights Act protections against racial discrimination in redistricting, the Supreme Court has paved the way for the largest-ever drop in representation by Black members of Congress.
NPR - 5 hours 41 min agoNPR's Michel Martin speaks with Kareem Crayton of the Brennan Center for Justice about the bigger implications of the Supreme Court's ruling on voting rights.
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