Alabama asks Supreme Court to allow pro-GOP map that diluted Black vote

[Guno צְבִי]

Alabama asked the Supreme Court on May 27 to let it use a pro-Republican congressional map that was deemed to have intentionally discriminated against Black voters, the latest fallout from the justices’ recent decision weakening the Voting Rights Act.

If the court grants Alabama’s emergency request, Republicans will have the advantage in the disputed congressional district as they try to retain control of the closely divided U.S. House.

Alabama had been under a court order to use a map in which two of the seven congressional districts had majority or near-majority Black populations rather than the GOP-preferred map with only one majority-Black district.

MSN

 

[Yakuda]

Alabama asked the Supreme Court on May 27 to let it use a pro-Republican congressional map that was deemed to have intentionally discriminated against Black voters, the latest fallout from the justices’ recent decision weakening the Voting Rights Act.

If the court grants Alabama’s emergency request, Republicans will have the advantage in the disputed congressional district as they try to retain control of the closely divided U.S. House.

Alabama had been under a court order to use a map in which two of the seven congressional districts had majority or near-majority Black populations rather than the GOP-preferred map with only one majority-Black district.

MSN

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[archives]

Alabama asked the Supreme Court on May 27 to let it use a pro-Republican congressional map that was deemed to have intentionally discriminated against Black voters, the latest fallout from the justices’ recent decision weakening the Voting Rights Act.

If the court grants Alabama’s emergency request, Republicans will have the advantage in the disputed congressional district as they try to retain control of the closely divided U.S. House.

Alabama had been under a court order to use a map in which two of the seven congressional districts had majority or near-majority Black populations rather than the GOP-preferred map with only one majority-Black district.

MSN

Trump’s SCOTUS fast tracks anything Trump wants them to, in the last year and half tney have taken a record 25 cases from the shadow docket and 20 went Trump’s way. Jack Smith requested a decision on Presidential immunity in December and it took them six and half months to a issue decision

 

[tsuke11]

I never understood why each skin color needed a representative. Obama was black and people voted for him because presumably he was the best candidate.

The only place I know which has quotas on representation is Lebanon where President has to be a Christian, Speaker a Sunni, and Prime Minister a SHiite and it fell apart pretty quickly.

If Alabama or wherever has a good candidate of black skin they will vote him. We have a black president and multiple black senators in majority white states that prove that.