GOP Targets Blue-State Districts After Supreme Court Voting Rights Decision

GOP targets blue-state districts after Supreme Court voting rights decision

A Fairfax County, Virginia, voter receives a sticker on Election Day, Nov. 4, 2025. (Photo by Nathaniel Cline/Virginia Mercury)Republicans on a U.S. Senate panel suggested Tuesday a recent Supreme Court decision weakening the federal Voting Rights Act invalidated U.S. House districts in Democratic states where most residents belong to a racial minority group.  Sen. Eric Schmitt, a Missouri Republican who chairs the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee …

Republicans target blue-state districts after US Supreme Court voting rights decision • West Virginia Watch

A Fairfax County, Virginia, voter receives a sticker on Election Day, Nov. 4, 2025. (Photo by Nathaniel Cline/Virginia Mercury)Republicans on a U.S. Senate panel suggested Tuesday a recent Supreme Court decision weakening the federal Voting Rights Act invalidated U.S. House districts in Democratic states where most residents belong to a racial minority group.  Sen. Eric Schmitt, a Missouri Republican who chairs the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee …

Republicans target blue-state districts after US Supreme Court voting rights decision

A Fairfax County, Virginia, voter receives a sticker on Election Day, Nov. 4, 2025. (Photo by Nathaniel Cline/Virginia Mercury)Republicans on a U.S. Senate panel suggested Tuesday a recent Supreme Court decision weakening the federal Voting Rights Act invalidated U.S. House districts in Democratic states where most residents belong to a racial minority group.  Sen. Eric Schmitt, a Missouri Republican who chairs the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee …

Dan Froomkin: The Court’s Voting Rights Decision Was Intended to Disenfranchise Black Voters

Dan Froomkin writes “Press Watch,” a blog that covers the media. In this post, he criticizes the mainstream media for treating the U.S. Supreme Court’s Callais decision as a partisan issue. It is that, but it is at bottom a decision that destroys Black political power. It allows states to divvy up districts in ways that eliminates Black representation. And former Confederate states wasted no time in breaking up districts that elect Blacks to Con…