The Supreme Court on Wednesday struck down a race-based redistricting map in Louisiana, ruling that…
Breitbart The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday struck down a race-based redistricting map in Louisiana, ruling that the state’s second black-majority district violates the Constitution.
The conservative majority ruled 6-3 that the map “is an unconstitutional gerrymander,” but stopped short of scrapping Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act.
“Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 was designed to enforce the Constitution — not collide with it. Unfortunately, lower courts have sometimes applied this Court’s §2 precedents in a way that forces States to engage in the very race-based discrimination that the Constitution forbids,” Justice Alito wrote for the majority.
“This tension between §2 and the Constitution came to a head when Louisiana redrew its congressional districts after the 2020 census. In 2022, a federal judge in the Middle District of Louisiana held that the map adopted by the state legislature likely violated §2 because it did not include an additional majority-black district,” he continued. “But when the State drew a new map that contained such a district, its new map was challenged as a racial gerrymander. A three-judge court in the Western District of Louisiana held that the new map violated the Equal Protection Clause, and the State appealed to this Court.”
The Supreme Court heard arguments in Louisiana v. Callais on October 15. The court heard arguments in the last term in June but agreed to hear another round and ultimately considered whether race or politics was the state’s motivation and whether compliance with the Voting Rights Act justifies the intentional use of race in drawing legislative districts.
…
Read Full Article Here…| Breitbart
Home | Caravan to Midnight
Be First to Comment