Supreme Court strikes Louisiana map, reshapes Voting Rights Act

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Amazingly difficult to find a story with a non-biased headline.  Does anyone not believe anymore that the majority of "respected" media has gone radical left?

 

Anyway, very important decision for basic human rights and the individual.

 

Supreme Court strikes Louisiana map, reshapes Voting Rights Act

 

April 29 (UPI) -- The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday struck down Louisiana's newly drawn congressional map as an unconstitutional racial gerrymander in a ruling that Democrats and civil rights advocates say gutted a key provision of the landmark Voting Rights Act.

 

The 6-3 decision is expected to eliminate one of the two predominantly Black congressional districts established by redistricting after the 2020 census.

 

Supporters of the redrawn map said it complied with Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, which bars election practices that dilute minority voters' power, including by packing them into too few districts or spreading them across too many.

 

Justice Samuel Alito, writing for the majority, described Louisiana's map as an "unconstitutional gerrymander."

 

"When §2 of the Act is properly interpreted, it imposes liability only when circumstances give rise to a strong inference that intentional discrimination occurred," he wrote.

 

The ruling weakens the landmark Voting Rights Act passed in 1965 to limit racial discrimination in voting.

 

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/supreme-court-rules-against-louisianas-congressional-map/ar-AA221aBW

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A great analysis of this ruling.

 

On Benign Bigotry

 

Voting “rights” have been distorted into something more: the right of black people to be represented by people of their same color (a foolish distinction given intermarriage and common humanity). This may have seemed a necessity at the time. It has now been the law of the land for more than 60 years, almost one-quarter of our time as a Republic…and I have a moral problem with it: It skirts the central doctrine of the Declaration of Independence. If all people are equal, racial distinctions of any sort should not be made.

 

https://josephklein.substack.com/p/on-benign-bigotry