Supreme Court ‘Voting Rights Act’ ruling shows how truly BRILLIANT Justice Alito is…

[livingston]

Supreme Court ‘Voting Rights Act’ ruling shows how truly BRILLIANT Justice Alito is…​

We just scored a major win, folks.

The Supreme Court just handed the right one of the biggest redistricting wins in eons, and Justice Samuel Alito did it in a way that shows exactly why he’s one of the sharpest legal minds on the Court.
The Court didn’t toss Section 2 in the bin. It did something much more surgical to it. It narrowed how it can be used, and by doing that, it may have turned one of the left’s favorite redistricting weapons right back on them…
See, Dems and their activist machine have used the Voting Rights Act to pressure states into drawing majority-minority districts by claiming that minority voters needed those districts to have a “fair chance” at representation. But the problem with that claim is that once the government starts sorting voters by race, it runs head-first, straight into the Constitution.
And that’s where Alito’s brilliant move comes in.
In Louisiana v. Callais, the Court ruled 6-3 that Louisiana’s newly redrawn congressional map, which created a second majority-black district, was an unconstitutional racial gerrymander move. The Court made it clear that compliance with the Voting Rights Act can matter but said Section 2 didn’t require Louisiana to create this kind of race-based map. This now limits the role race can play in redistricting and could deeply impact congressional maps heading into the 2026 midterms, which is great news for Republicans.
Because if the left can’t use Section 2 to force states into race-based mapmaking, their entire redistricting playbook is gutted. And if Section 2 can now be used to challenge majority-minority districts that are all race and no constitutional substance, then Alito didn’t just limit the left’s weapon… he flipped it.

Supreme Court 'Voting Rights Act' ruling shows how truly BRILLIANT Justice Alito is... - Revolver News

Alito’s move isbigger than it looks.

revolver.news

 

[livingston]

Supreme Court rules on key Voting Rights Act rule as Republicans and Democrats wage redistricting war​

At issue was whether the state's congressional map, updated twice since the 2020 census, is an illegal racial gerrymander​

The Supreme Court on Wednesday limited the scope of a key Voting Rights Act provision that restricts how states draw districts affecting minority voters, constraining states' use of race as a factor when drawing congressional maps ahead of the 2026 midterms.
Justices ruled 6-3 that Louisiana's 2024 congressional map, which was redrawn to create a second majority-Black district, constituted an "illegal" racial gerrymander. The court's decision sharply narrows states' use of race as a factor when drawing their congressional districts, effectively watering down Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act in question designed to protect minority voters.
"Compliance with Section 2 thus could not justify the State's use of race-based redistricting here," he added.

A recent report from the nonprofit groups Fair Fight Action and Black Voters Matter Fund estimates that an overhaul of the VRA could swing an estimated 12 Democratic-held House districts in favor of Republican candidates.

Supreme Court rules on key Voting Rights Act rule as Republicans and Democrats wage redistricting war

The Supreme Court has decided a closely watched case over Louisiana’s congressional map and the scope of the Voting Rights Act.

www.foxnews.com

 

[livingston]

Chaotic Moment Protesters Disrupt Tennessee Redistricting Hearing, Get Kicked Out​

Republicans in Tennessee on May 6th proposed a new congressional map that would divide Memphis’ Shelby County into three districts, potentially dismantling the state’s only Democratic-held seat. The proposal sparked protests at a Senate committee meeting, where demonstrators chanting “Hands off our vote!” were removed by state troopers

 

[Cooolone]

The Political refugees who are in a massive exodus from the Leftist Progressive States are welcoming the ruling as they relocate to better places from which they came!

The reverse may soon likely be true, that a massive politically fueled racial migration realignment occur within the US with minority voters uprooting and relocating to liberal bastions ...

It is all possible, maybe probably, not impossible! It is, WHY we came here to begin with, to ESCAPE political and religious persecution... To have our freedoms and to congregate with those who lived and thought the same ways...

Why couldn't this be possible now on an internal arrangement? Of course it could and it actually "IS" happening!

 

[TEOTWAWKI inc.]

Chaotic Moment Protesters Disrupt Tennessee Redistricting Hearing, Get Kicked Out​

Republicans in Tennessee on May 6th proposed a new congressional map that would divide Memphis’ Shelby County into three districts, potentially dismantling the state’s only Democratic-held seat. The proposal sparked protests at a Senate committee meeting, where demonstrators chanting “Hands off our vote!” were removed by state troopers

TN passed this and the governor signed it. The state is very likely 100% republican representation in the US house and senate

 

[Robin]

The great migration? Hmmmm, looks like the lines are being drawn, also looks like Upstate will have to take the idea of making ourselves separate from the rotten apple more seriously, finally.
Robin