The Alito court probably will contiune to move to waterdown and cancel the actions over the past 50 years to level the playing field for Black’s, Brown’s and Yellow’s in America’s political government….
‘Civil Rights’ and ‘Affirmitive Action’ is looked at as a thing of the past as Right Leaners from the President on down want to move America BACK in time…
The Supreme Court’s conservative majority appears to be on the verge of weakening the Voting Rights Act, the landmark civil rights era law that protects racial minorities’ voting power.
During oral arguments Wednesday in Louisiana v. Callais, several conservative justices signaled outright hostility toward the longstanding interpretation of Section 2 of the 1965 law — which broadly prohibits discrimination in voting practices on the basis of race or creed.
Decades of legal precedents have, in practice, directed states and federal courts to ensure that legislative district maps contain some districts where minority voters make up at least half the population. The rationale is to prevent “dilution” of minorities’ voting power and ensure that communities of Black, Latino or Asian voters can elect their preferred candidates.
But Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito and Neil Gorsuch appeared inclined to bar virtually any use of race in redistricting. They suggested that race-conscious district lines might be unconstitutional.
And Justice Brett Kavanaugh, whose vote will likely be pivotal in the case, repeatedly suggested that race-based remedies under the Voting Rights Act should be permitted only “for a limited period of time.”
“They should have an end point,” Kavanaugh said during the oral arguments, which stretched for about two and a half hours.
Kavanaugh’s desire for a time limit resembled the Supreme Court’s treatment of affirmative action in higher education. Two years ago, the six-justice conservative majority overturned decades of prior precedents and struck down race-conscious admissions policies, in part because the court found that racial dynamics in society have evolved….
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Advocates have argued the landmark civil rights laws’ protections are still needed, and without them minority voters’ representation at all levels of government would suffer…..
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Nate Cohn: “Republicans have been redrawing congressional districts this year at President Trump’s behest, but so far it hasn’t seemed to be enough to deny Democrats a reasonable path to control of the House.”
“That might change if the Supreme Court strikes down Section 2 of the 1965 Voting Rights Act… Without Section 2, which has been interpreted to require the creation of majority-minority districts, Republicans could eliminate upward of a dozen Democratic-held districts across the South.”
“Republicans may not eliminate every Democratic-leaning district that they technically could… but the party’s aggressive mid-cycle redistricting suggests they would eliminate enough to obtain a significant structural advantage. It’s not clear whether this would occur by next year’s midterm elections, with a court ruling likely next summer, but the new seats would eventually be enough to make Republicans favored to win the House even if they lost the popular vote by a wide margin.”
Los Angeles Times: Supreme Court might upend Voting Rights Act and help GOP keep control of the House.
If you’re right?
Then you can forget the Democrats retaking the House which you have been promoting for months now.
Maybe……
Trump IS working HARD to HELP DEMOCRATS WIN in the Midterms and 2028…..