Via the Washington Post:
The Supreme Court ruled Monday that electoral districts must have a majority of African-Americans or other minorities to be protected by a provision of the Voting Rights Act.
The Decision was 5:4, aligned as one would expect.
Goodbye John Barrow.
What about in cases where that isn’t possible? There are districts like Butterfield’s in NC where I’m not sure you can feasibly draw it to be 50% AA. Are they just going to be required to draw tham as close to 50% as possible?
And what about cases where drawing one 50% AA district would effectively destroy a second heavily AA district? I don’t think this will be the end of this case. There are too many loopholes and unique circunstances.
Rather than maximizing minority representation in congress this has the affect of actually limiting it. Nice.
Doubt he would be damaged by the decision. His district is already around 45% AA. If that increased by 5% I can’t see much change unless a top-tier AA legislator primaries him. And that might necessarily be a bad thing.
He only has 2 of 9 appointee’s. IIRC, which is very fuzzy… Reinquist and O’Conner voted against the VRA anyways. Not like the switches made a difference.