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#Louisiana Approves Map Eliminating a Majority #Black District
Louisiana lawmakers gave final approval on Friday to a new congressional map that would eliminate 1 of the state’s 2 majority-Black districts, making it the second Southern state to draw & approve carving out such a district since #SCOTUS weakened the #VotingRightsAct last month.
#law #ElectionLaw #VotingRights #VRA #Trump #BigLie #ActivistCourt #SouthernStrategy #JimCrow #redistricting #gerrymandering
nytimes.com/2026/05/29/us/poli…
#Alabama’s AG, Steve Marshall, said he would immediately appeal to #SCOTUS, which last month ruled that a #Louisiana congressional map drawn to create 2 majority-#Black House districts was an unconstitutional racial gerrymander. Gov Kay Ivey, a Republican, has already set special primaries in August in 4 #House districts that would be affected by her state’s new congressional map.
#VotingRights #VRA #redistricting #law #RepresentationMatters #WhiteSupremacy #SouthernStrategy #JimCrow #Trump
The conservative majority, meanwhile, already diluted enforcement power with an April decision that struck down a majority #Black congressional district in #Louisiana & made future cases much harder to win.
In that case, #SCOTUS’ conservative majority ruled a map relied too heavily on race with a district aimed at giving Black voters a chance to elect a candidate of their choice. The decision effectively limited #VotingRights claims to maps that are intentionally designed to discriminate.
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As a white Southerner in the United States, I am deeply appalled. Words absolutely fail to describe how this gerrymandering could downspiral from the loss of political representation for Black Americans to loss of professional opportunities and individual personal freedoms. And don't get me started about educational equality. This is an outrage, and an assault against the memory of the Black slaves whose labor literally built the Southlands from the ground up. It's a misery and a heartbreak for their descendants, many of whom still live in poverty, oppression, and injustice.
motherjones.com/politics/2026/…
#scotus #uspol #jimcrow #gerrymandering #southcarolina
#louisiana #georgia #mississippi
#alabama #northcarolina
Alito said racism was over. Southern states are now rushing to revive Jim Crow.
Republicans are set to dismantle at least five majority-Black districts in the South.Mother Jones
Southern strategy:
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#Louisiana #Texas #Tennessee #Alabama #gerrymandering #Republicans #editorialcartoon #Virginia #supremecourt #race #scotus
Toon: The 60% Solution
At the risk of giving GQP politicians ideas... On April 29, well ahead of its usual timetable of issuing rulings in June, the U.S. Supreme C...bergetoons.blogspot.com
These pictures are so cool. Like many, I’ve always wanted to poke around #SixFlagsNola, but was too scared of what I would find 😬
cc: @noladon
