Supreme Court Bans Racial Gerrymandering; Districts to Be Remade Colorblind
The U.S. Supreme Court's ruling in Louisiana v. Callais could be one of—if not the—deciding factor in who controls the House moving forward.The ruling is monumental because it struck down an interpretation of the Voting Rights Act that has, for decades now, forced southern states to draw up congressional maps in a way that maximizes the black vote.If you look at the congressional map, districts in these states have been drawn in strange ways because they’ve been forced by the courts to connect disparate pockets of black neighborhoods.However, this has just been ruled to be unconstitutional…
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