Simply put: This decision will swing more seats in the short term than the controversial mid-decade redistricting efforts that ate up so much media attention over the last year. We're watching in real-time as an entire political movement chooses the pursuit of absolute power over the fundamental rights of the people.
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The immediate impact shows how partisan the Louisiana v. Callais case before the Supreme Court was, John.
In the weeks since this decision, five states have already moved to redraw their maps , dilute the impact of minority voters, and return parts of the country to a suppressive era we thought we left behind sixty years ago. Louisiana itself stopped an election with voting already in progress , and other states are moving to change their own maps soon.
CNN says this has created " an unprecedented amount of flux in American democracy six months before Election Day ." Candidates don’t know where to run. Lawmakers are seeing their districts carved up. Voters don’t know which district they live in.
This is all about power. Whether districts are fair or everyone is represented has been tossed by the wayside for MAGA's desperate grasp to control a country that's more disillusioned with their actions by the day.
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Striking down the last remnants of the Voting Rights Act is exactly why the Supreme Court held this case over from last year. Gutting Section 2, which requires that racial minorities have an equal opportunity to meaningfully participate in the electoral process , is going to take us backwards in time and allow racial gerrymandering to be a standard practice, silencing more voters.
Long before the MAGA movement, Chief Justice Roberts saw the removal of the VRA as one of his top goals for his time on the Court. President Trump followed this decision with a directive for conservative-led states to erase multiple majority-Black districts across the South. His supporters are climbing over one another to comply.
The consequences are simple to understand and grave for voter participation. The harder we make it to vote, the more politicians make voter participation feel worthless, the less people actually take part. Needless to say, the less people who participate, the less our democracy and our government looks like the people it's supposed to represent.
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