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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.
#law
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.
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#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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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
Sen Bill Cassidy’s defeat in Saturday’s #Republican #primary in #Louisiana will be covered as evidence of Trump’s grip over the party. #BillCassidy voted to convict #Trump after his second #impeachment following #Jan6, 2021, & this was payback.
At the same time, Cassidy’s third-place finish highlights another unfortunate trend in #US politics: the decline of open primaries across the country.
BLACK PEOPLE IN LOUISIANA! TODAY IS THE LAST DAY TO VOTE! PLEASE TURN OUT IN RECORD NUMBERS AT THE POLLS!!
Vote NO on all five constitutional amendments!
ALL ROADS LEAD TO THE SOUTH TODAY! Montgomery, Alabama
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Thank you brother Roland Martin, for covering this national day of action for VOTING RIGHTS!
#louisiana #blackpeople #BlackMastodon #votingrights #vote
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BOOM! SAY IT LOUDER:
Gary Chambers Jr. just dragged #Louisiana Republicans — while Speaker Mike Johnson wears holes in his kneepads for Dear Leader.
#whitesupremacy #greatreplacementtheory #TuckerCarlson #racism #votersuppression
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“The MAGA party is the last breath of the Confederacy,” he told lawmakers. “If y’all could give us less than zero seats, you would do it.”
“There will be no more of your party,” he said. “The midterms gonna come, y’all gonna get wiped out,”
A #Louisiana resident who identified himself as Marshawn delivers a fiery, emotional speech to lawmakers during a state Senate hearing over redistricting Monday, accusing GOP of trying to “cheat” Black voters out of political power
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#Alabama officials pointed to the #Louisiana case as reason for #SCOTUS to end a judicial order to use a court-imposed #House map until after the 2030 census. SCOTUS overturned that order & directed a lower court to reconsider the case in light of the Louisiana decision. That could free the state to instead use a map approved in 2023 by the #Republican-led legislature that includes only 1 district where #Black residents comprise a majority.
#SCOTUS set the stage for #Alabama to get rid of 1 of 2 largely #Black congressional districts before this year’s #midterms, creating an opening for #Republicans to gain an additional #US #House seat in a closely divided chamber.
The decision follows a SCOTUS ruling that struck down a majority-Black US House district in #Louisiana as an “unconstitutional” #RacialGerrymander, significantly weakening the federal #VotingRights Act.
#law #PartisanCourt #ActivistCourt
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Meanwhile, #Republican lawmakers in #Louisiana & #SouthCarolina also presented congressional #redistricting plans that faced staunch opposition from #CivilRights activists & #Democrats.
#Republicans in Southern states have been moving quickly to try to capitalize on a recent #SCOTUS ruling in a Louisiana case that significantly weakened #VotingRights Act protections for minorities.
#law #ElectionLaw #midterms #vote
"If you are taking seats from black people, which we are entitled to by the constitution of this country, then you are a thief." 💯
Baton Rouge civil rights activist Gary Chambers standing up to the corrupt GOP lawmakers who want to eliminate Louisiana’s majority Black districts.
If voting was useless they would not be trying to redistrict to supress the vote!
#USPol #Louisiana #Republicans #Elections #VotingRights #Resist
Critically, the situation in #Louisiana was already chaos as different courts said that the electoral map was both required AND forbidden.
The Supreme Court ruling brought some order to that chaos, but state officials are still trying to clean up the chaos that existed before the SCOTUS ruling.
This kind of thing has been a longstanding result of the VRA and its interpreters.
#USPolitics #VRA #SCOTUS
#Republican #ViolenceAgainstWomen
A US appeals court on Friday temporarily blocked a federal rule allowing the #AbortionMedication #mifepristone to be dispensed through the #mail, significantly curtailing #access to the drug #nationwide, particularly in states that banned #abortion.
A 3-judge panel of the ultra-#conservative #5thCircuit ruled unanimously that #Louisiana was likely to prevail in its challenge to the 2023 rule adopted by President #Biden's admin.
In major Voting Rights Act case, Supreme Court strikes down redistricting map challenged as racially discriminatory
The Supreme Court on Wednesday struck down a Louisiana congressional map that a group of voters who describe themselves as “non-African American” had challenged as the product of unconstitutional racial gerrymandering.Amy Howe (SCOTUSblog)
It begins…
#Louisiana governor prepares to suspend #House primaries after #SCOTUS ruling
Gov. Jeff Landry (R) told #Republican House candidates he plans to suspend the May 16 primary #elections so lawmakers can redraw the congressional map.
#law #ElectionLaw #VotingRights #Section2 #redistricting #RepresentationMatters #PartisanCourt #ActivistCourt #Trump #coup
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#SCOTUS tosses #Louisiana's congressional map with second majority Black district amid national #redistricting fight
The Supreme Court struck down Louisiana’s second majority Black congressional district in a decision that could open the door for #Republican-led states to eliminate #Black & #Latino electoral districts that tend to favor #Democrats & affect the balance of #power in #Congress.
#law #gerrymandering #VotingRights #RepresentationMatters
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These pictures are so cool. Like many, I’ve always wanted to poke around #SixFlagsNola, but was too scared of what I would find 😬
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