Voting Rights PROTECTED against Gerrymandering (Makes you wonder which 4 wanted it) ?

[legalboxers]

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/voting-rights-supreme-court_n_6481e491e4b0756ff85c0c7f
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.

Trump Backed Justices including Thomas were for Gerrymandering...

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[LiamJHayden]

Gerrymandering to deny or to force are both just as bad. What is really stupid is that it is easy to write a computer program that will make districts that as as compact as possible and of as equal number of people as possible in each state. If it were done that way, it would remove the power of entrenched politicians of both major parties to make deals to keep protecting themselves and their friends at the expense of people on both sides who end up suffering under the laws passed by these out-of-touch "leaders."

[GoodGuyBreakingBad]

It's hard to say Trump could be behind some of this?

[GoodGuyBreakingBad]

Thanks for MHO :)