THE BIG UNEASY
Plus: Family who assaulted conservative journalist facing justice & Kamala’s historical blunder
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Today we’re covering a major SCOTUS decision on racial gerrymandering, an update on the assault of a conservative journalist, and the Kamala camp’s historical blunder.
THE BIG UNEASY
The Supreme Court issued a landmark decision Wednesday striking down racial gerrymandering, the practice of states drawing majority minority congressional districts in the name of equal representation.
The case centered on Louisiana trying to add a second majority-black district to its congressional map, but SCOTUS sided with President Donald Trump’s administration and Louisiana Republicans by finding the map unconstitutional.
Justice Samuel Alito, who wrote the majority opinion, warned that some states were using Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to justify “the very race-based discrimination that the Constitution forbids.”
Opponents to the second majority-black congressional district argued that making race the dominant factor in the redistricting process violates the equal protection clause in the 14th Amendment.
Democrats wanted the second majority-black district because they claimed that all black voters were shoehorned into one district, which diluted their voting power. However, the additional majority black district snakes all the way from Shreveport to Baton Rouge; it’s a geographic monstrosity.
The decision could have broader implications beyond Louisiana: will other states that tried to boost minority voting power have to redraw their districts, too?
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