US EditionSupreme Court Decision Sets Off Gerrymandering Scramble
The ruling has spurred Republicans and Democrats to fight over congressional maps, with Florida, Louisiana and Tennessee among the states moving first.
- The Supreme Court struck down Louisiana's congressional map, making it significantly harder to challenge redistricting plans as discriminatory under the Voting Rights Act, triggering redistricting fights nationwide.
- Nearly 40% of the country's House seats have already been involved in mid-decade redistricting as President Donald Trump encouraged Texas to pursue changes, intensifying the partisan arms race between Republicans and Democrats.
- In Florida, Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis used the ruling to advance a plan aiming to turn four blue House seats red, while Tennessee officials consider redrawing the Memphis-area district of Rep. Steve Cohen.
- Following the decision, Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry delayed the May 16 primaries to redraw maps, prompting Black voters to caution the Supreme Court that such action is "unnecessary and unwarranted."
- Mississippi serves as an early test for the ruling's impact, where Black voters successfully challenged state supreme court boundaries; Senior District Judge Sharion Aycock has requested additional briefs next week on how the standard applies in non-partisan elections.
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Supreme Court’s voting rights ruling could fuel new era of unending gerrymanders - The Boston Globe
Left as probable casualties are long-standing principles of fair representation and American voters likely to be placed in hyperpartisan districts benefiting the ruling party.
By Tierney Sneed, Fredreka Schouten and John Fritze, CNN. One day after the U.S. Supreme Court further weakened the Voting Rights Act, Republican-run states are considering changes to bolster gerrymandering at the expense of voters of color, while voting rights groups try to limit the ruling's impact on this year's midterm elections.
A Welcome Decision To Severely Limit Racial Gerrymandering
Even after the historic atrocity of slavery was abolished, laws were made-and upheld by the Supreme Court-which, in certain parts of the country, directly contradicted that founding principle. There were a hundred years of racial segregation after the Emancipation.
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The ReflectorSCOTUS racial gerrymandering ruling could spark new redistricting battle in Washington
A Washington state senator who was gerrymandered out of her district is hoping Wednesday’s U.S. Supreme Court ruling concerning how states draw districts affecting minority voters will bring changes here. The U.S. Supreme Court has now limited the scope of the Voting Rights Act, constraining the use of race as a factor when drawing congressional maps. Justices ruled 6-3 that Louisiana's 2024 congressional map, which was redrawn to create a secon…
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