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Supreme Court Protects Voting Rights In Racial Gerrymandering Case

In a surprise decision, the Supreme Court agreed that Alabama violated the Voting Rights Act by diluting the Black vote when it drew new congressional maps following the 2020 census.

The 5-4 decision written by Chief Justice John Roberts found that Alabama Republicans improperly denied Black communities a second congressional district by packing them into one district and splitting them into other majority white districts. The decision was joined by liberal Justices Elena Kagan, Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson and conservative Justice Brett Kavanaugh.

The decision in Allen v. Milligan comes as a shock as the court’s conservatives have repeatedly gutted the Voting Rights Act in cases over the past decade including Shelby County v. Holder and Brnovich v. Democratic National Committee.

In his decision, Roberts firmly rejected Alabama’s arguments in favor of a new race-neutral standard to govern racial gerrymandering cases brought under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act as “novel.”

“The heart of these cases is not about the law as it exists,” Roberts wrote. “It is about Alabama’s attempt to remake our [Section 2] jurisprudence anew.”

Alabama will now be required to redraw its congressional district map to provide for a second majority-Black district. The decision will have extended consequences too as both plaintiffs in Louisiana and Georgia claimed similar racial discrimination in redistricting in cases that were pending at the Supreme Court. This could lead to the creation of one new Black-majority district in each state.

Not lose in the moment or next several years…but liberal changes keep coming be they freeing slaves, giving women the right to vote, environment, healthcare, gay marriage, marijuana, etc…

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/ron-desantis-supreme-court_n_646c8f70e4b0ab2b97ea1153#
Ron DeSantis Outlines Vision To Remold Supreme Court, Takes Subtle Jab At Trump

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis offered conservative Christians a two-term plan to shove the Supreme Court even further to the right on Monday.

DeSantis has yet to officially announce his candidacy for the Republican presidential nomination. But he was in full campaign mode, hoping to rouse the party’s religious base with the prospect of a 7-2 conservative advantage in the high court over eight years. The time span reference was likely a veiled dig at his potential rival for the White House, former President Donald Trump, who is only eligible to serve one more four-year term.

“I think if you look over the next two presidential terms, there is a good chance that you could be called upon to seek replacements for Justice Clarence Thomas and Justice Samuel Alito and the issue with that is, you can’t really do better than those two,” DeSantis told the National Religious Broadcasters convention in Orlando, per The Washington Post.
DeSantis warned of a jurist replacement in the mold of John Roberts, a conservative who is perceived by many to be a centrist.

“If you replace a Clarence Thomas with somebody like a Roberts or somebody like that, then you’re gonna actually see the court move to the left, and you can’t do that,” he said.
DeSantis suggested that Roberts and liberal Sonia Sotomayor might also retire in the near future.