The Supreme Court’s Conservatives Have One Consistent Rule: Black Votes Shouldn’t Count

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In a shadow docket order last night, the Supreme Court greenlit Alabama's 2023 congressional map that a federal court found intentionally discriminates against Black voters, effectively blessing racial gerrymandering.

When the Court gutted the Voting Rights Act in Louisiana v. Callais, it found that intentional racial discrimination in voting remains unconstitutional.

But yesterday's 6-3 ruling suggests that, in practice, almost no federal protections remain for non-white voters, even in extreme cases.

https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/supreme-court-greenlights-alabamas-racial-gerrymander-signaling-free-rein-for-states-to-discriminate/

#voting #elections #votingrights #gerrymandering #justice #politics

We got lucky that the SC Senate brought some reason to the table and rejected mid-election Congressional line redistricting. Unless we start getting busy flipping some seats, we won't be so lucky next time.

#SouthCarolina #gerrymandering #redistricting #SCPol

#Trump is the most unpopular and incompetent president in US history, but he can still win midterm elections through the Republican’s oldest trick - #gerrymandering.

Put creative borders around your voting districts so that all ethnic minorities are squeezed into only one district, and you can do anything you want.

Of course, the Supreme Court is supposed to block this. But what do you do when the Supreme Court is staffed with the judges that you appointed yourself?

#USPol

RE: https://flipboard.com/@thenewsdesk/politics-9rga37brz/-/a-wxu_-1b0TEKBn6fXEvmfUQ%3Aa%3A43591897-%2F0

Unreal

#SCOTUS allows #Alabama to use #GOP-friendly map for #midterms, cutting seat held by #Black #Democrat

#law #redistricting #gerrymandering #SouthernStrategy #JimCrow
https://www.cnn.com/2026/06/02/politics/supreme-court-june-trump?cid=ios_app

Now that Peter #Thiel has fled to Argentina, I have to wonder what is going through the minds of our Nazi politicians, #ICE agents, and #ExtremeCourt #Injustices who are still going all-out with the subversion of democracy and human rights — filling concentration camps with people of color, retroactively #gerrymandering and overturning elections they've already lost, twisting the #Constitution (which was already a charter for #plutocracy) into a charter for #dictatorship, denying self-determination to #trans people and to cis #women, and all the rest of it.

Do they really still think they're going to win this? Or do they just have no idea what else to do; are they incapable of imagining an exit strategy and a way to try to cut their losses? Or — and this is the most plausible story I've thought of yet — are they #desperadoes who believe that at this point they're in so deep that no further crimes they commit could possibly make their ultimate fate any worse than it already will be?

If it's the last, I'd encourage them to ask themselves why #Orbán in #Hungary chose to accept his electoral defeat and step down, rather than simply lying outrageously about the vote counts and trying to hang on to power. He understood very clearly that if he made a violent #revolution necessary, he could very easily suffer consequences far more drastic than any that #Magyar's prosecutors would be likely to impose. He didn't want to end up with his head on a pike.

"After the death of the Voting Rights Act, it is nearly impossible to imagine a worse political structure for African Americans than one based on single-member legislative districts. " - Perry Bacon and Jake Grumbach in The New Republic.

#VotingRightsAct #gerrymandering #proportionalRepresentation #Callais

https://newrepublic.com/article/210669/voting-rights-act-dead-new-model-black-politics