Interesting. This happens to be a hobby-horse of Jim Sensenbrenner; he was on the side of the gerrymander in question, persecuting the South. This is dead-center what Justice Thomas referred to in a quote below.
The Supreme Court on Friday directed parties in the ongoing Louisiana redistricting case to present briefs addressing the constitutionality of creating minority-majority Congressional districts. In a tersely worded order, the Court ordered participants in Louisiana vs. Callais "to file supplemental briefs addressing the following question raised on pages 36—38 of the Brief for Appellees: Whether the State’s intentional creation of a second majority-minority congressional district violates the Fourteenth or Fifteenth Amendments to the U. S. Constitution." ...
Whao, Nellie!!
An X posting on the matter has this:
I cannot stress to you enough how earth-shattering it would be for the Supreme Court to strike down Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act. The electoral cornerstone of the Postwar Liberal Consensus would be gone overnight, and with it, the Democratic Party's ability to contest the House of Representatives as we know it. Between this and the potential mid-decade redistricting in a few other GOP-controlled states, Democrats would not be able to flip back the House of Representatives even if they ruthlessly gerrymandered every Republican out of California....
How did Justice Thomas phrase it?
“In my mind, government-sponsored racial discrimination based on benign prejudice is just as noxious as discrimination inspired by malicious prejudice.”
Yes, it is. Yes, indeed.
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