Some of you recall James Sensenbrenner as a "Conservative" Republican.
He was also a racist in the peculiar and perverse fashion of the day, hammering on enforcement of S.2 of the VRA in the South. Worse, he voted for Section 702 of the "Patriot" Act, which meant that the FBI could (and does) spy on you for any reason at all, so long as they can conjure up a connection to "national security".
In other words, James Sensenbrenner was NOT a "Conservative."
But soon, his racism vehicle will be declared dead--at least partially.
...Back in the 80s, if I remember right, left-wing extremists began demanding that section 2 of the Voting Rights Act be read to require explicitly race-based gerrymandering to create majority-minority districts.
These majority-minority districts just so happened to be Democrat-supermajority districts, and this imposition was placed on the states of the old Confederacy, which just so happen to be Republican states.
Left-wing judges agreed with this idea, naturally, and began demanding that red states gerrymander their congressional districts to always guarantee Democrats of 3-4 bonus seats that they would never, ever have in a normal partisan gerrymander. While the blue states worked relentlessly to eliminate all Republican-leaning districts, or to pack all Republicans into just one or two districts to make sure every other district was Democrat-majority, Republicans have been forced by left-wing judges to always carve out special Democrats-Only districts....
Sensenbrenner, from his perch in Congress, pursued vigorous enforcement of S.2 VRA's "legal" racism until the very end.
He also never gave a second thought to the Spy-On-YOU!! Act he voted for, and voted to renew.
But he carried around a copy of the Constitution, see??
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