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<blockquote data-quote="ThatRobGuy" data-source="post: 77249875" data-attributes="member: 123415"><p>[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/08/politics/supreme-court-alabama-voting-rights-milligan/index.html[/URL]</p><p></p><p>CNN —</p><p>The Supreme Court on Thursday <a href="https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/22pdf/21-1086_1co6.pdf" target="_blank">ordered Alabama officials to redraw</a> the state’s congressional map to allow an additional Black majority district to account for the fact that the state is 27% Black.</p><p></p><p>The decision – that affords additional opportunities for minority voters to elect the candidate of their choice – comes as a surprise given the conservative majority on the court. Alabama currently has seven congressional districts, with six represented by Republicans.</p><p></p><p>Supporters of voting rights had feared that the court was going to make it harder for minorities to challenge maps under Section 2 of the historic Voting Rights Act.</p><p></p><p>Chief Justice John Roberts penned the opinion for a 5-4 majority, siding with the court’s three liberals. Justice Brett Kavanaugh agreed with the key parts of the holding, providing the fifth vote.</p><p></p><p></p><p>To put it in perspective, a few decades back, this is what their electoral map looked like:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]332135[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>After 20 years of gerrymandering efforts, it had turned into this jigsaw puzzle</p><p>[ATTACH=full]332136[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p></p><p>There are typically two forms of gerrymandering "Packing" and "Cracking"...the past few decades have seen both implemented in Alabama. They've both drawn wild lines in order to keep the narrow majority of Black people "packed" in the 7th district, while simultaneously creating the borders of the 7th district in a way that "cracks" up the Black voters in Birmingham and Montgomery so that 40% of them end up being stuck in Districts 2 & 6 (where their votes are rendered pointless)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ThatRobGuy, post: 77249875, member: 123415"] [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/08/politics/supreme-court-alabama-voting-rights-milligan/index.html[/URL] CNN — The Supreme Court on Thursday [URL='https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/22pdf/21-1086_1co6.pdf']ordered Alabama officials to redraw[/URL] the state’s congressional map to allow an additional Black majority district to account for the fact that the state is 27% Black. The decision – that affords additional opportunities for minority voters to elect the candidate of their choice – comes as a surprise given the conservative majority on the court. Alabama currently has seven congressional districts, with six represented by Republicans. Supporters of voting rights had feared that the court was going to make it harder for minorities to challenge maps under Section 2 of the historic Voting Rights Act. Chief Justice John Roberts penned the opinion for a 5-4 majority, siding with the court’s three liberals. Justice Brett Kavanaugh agreed with the key parts of the holding, providing the fifth vote. To put it in perspective, a few decades back, this is what their electoral map looked like: [ATTACH type="full" alt="1686239134576.png"]332135[/ATTACH] After 20 years of gerrymandering efforts, it had turned into this jigsaw puzzle [ATTACH type="full" width="545px" alt="1686239183066.png"]332136[/ATTACH] There are typically two forms of gerrymandering "Packing" and "Cracking"...the past few decades have seen both implemented in Alabama. They've both drawn wild lines in order to keep the narrow majority of Black people "packed" in the 7th district, while simultaneously creating the borders of the 7th district in a way that "cracks" up the Black voters in Birmingham and Montgomery so that 40% of them end up being stuck in Districts 2 & 6 (where their votes are rendered pointless) [/QUOTE]
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