Why is the Court GVRing Cases In Light Of Callais That Did Not Turn On The Issues In Callais? I think the Court is hoping these cases go away on the merits and they won't have to deal with them. Reason · May 18
Mike Johnson shrugs off Black voters’ concerns about GOP gerrymandering: ‘This brings back fairness’ Johnson’s home state of Louisiana will draw out a second majority-Black district after the Supreme Court’s ruling that all but killed the Voting Rights Act The Independent UK · May 17
Kamala Harris comes out swinging for Supreme Court expansion to take down ‘red state cheating’ Former VP says GOP is ‘back-dooring racism through politics’ as she calls for Supreme Court and Electoral College reform The Independent UK · May 16
SCOTUS could erase Black representation Local elections are where the Callais decision could be felt most Salon · May 16
Voting Rights Act ruling is ‘red meat’ to Republicans in south, says Black lawmaker targeted by gerrymander Mississippi politicians are threatening to redraw the district of Bennie Thompson, the state’s lone Democrat in Congress The Guardian - US · May 15
Republican redistricting effort is ‘evil incarnate’, Stacey Abrams tells new Guardian podcast In interview with Stateside with Kai and Carter, Abrams says Republicans have raised the stakes beyond party lines The Guardian - US · May 13
The GOP still has a voter problem Legal wins won’t matter if Republicans can’t get people to vote for them Salon · May 12
Racial gerrymandering may be here to stay The outrage was swift and severe when the U.S. Supreme Court, by an ideologically divided 6-3 vote, recently struck down Louisiana’s majority Black congressional district as an unconstitutional racial gerrymander. Critics lambasted the court for gutting the Voting Rights Act, the federal law that had until recently garnered strong bipartisan… The Conversation · May 11
The next Voting Rights Act must outlaw gerrymandering The supreme court has gutted one of the strongest federal tools we had against the most effective weapon in US politics The Guardian - US · May 10
NAACP Seek To Recall Callais Judgment So It Can Seek Reconsideration The time to make this request was when the Plaintiffs moved to issue the judgment forthwith. Reason · May 5
Voting Rights Act ruling could change representation on city councils, school boards across Texas The 1965 federal law helped Latino and Black voters gain representation in city and school boards across Texas but now that could change. The Texas Tribune · May 5
The Partisan Asymmetry In Callais Justice Jackson never countenances that her decision to "run out the clock" might be partisan. Reason · May 5
The supreme court trusts America not to be racist. I don’t The Callais decision is predicated on the idea that American leaders will act justly on their own. That premise has already been proven hollow The Guardian - US · May 3
International Business Times UK · May 2 Supreme Court Eviscerates Voting Rights Act: 'Demolition' Completed A 6–3 US Supreme Court ruling in Louisiana v Callais has weakened a core provision of the Voting Rights Act, shaking the legal foundations of federal voting protections.
Reason · May 1 5th Circuit Panel Blocks 2023 Mifepristone Telemedicine Approval This case will go to the Supreme Court very quickly.
The Guardian - US · May 1 Voting rights groups sue to block Louisiana from suspending primary elections State’s governor has ordered congressional primary halted until state can redraw districts and dilute Black vote
Salon · May 1 SCOTUS unleashes gerrymandering dragon The Court's 6-3 decision gutting the Voting Rights Act will reshape the nation's political map in dramatic fashion
The Guardian - US · May 1 Push for state-level voting rights acts renewed after supreme court ruling Nine states have a version of voting rights act and 11 more, including several in the south, have introduced bills to protect voters in absence of federal protections
The Guardian - US · May 1 The supreme court’s voting rights decision wasn’t about law – it was about politics This court has impaled one of the most important laws in American history, with disastrous consequences for multiracial democracy
Roll Call · May 1 Redistricting decision hamstrings potential congressional response The Supreme Court’s decision limiting the Voting Rights Act appears to hamper Congress from passing legislation to restore the law’s protections for minority voters when states draw new congressional districts, legal experts say. In the hours after Wednesday’s 6-3 decision invalidating Louisiana’s congressional map, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y.,…
The Guardian - US · May 1 Conservative justices actually consider race – except in correcting inequality In Louisiana v Callais, the supreme court has openly considered white Republicans in partisan redistricting
The Guardian - US · Apr 30 What is the US supreme court’s voting rights ruling about and will it affect midterms? Rightwing justices in Louisiana v Callais led 6-3 vote to redraw congressional maps in blow to Voting Rights Act
The Mary Sue · Apr 30 The Supreme Court just gutted the Voting Rights Act and Louisiana’s Black voters are the first casualty The Supreme Court just delivered a crushing blow to the Voting Rights Act, and Louisiana’s Black voters are feeling the impact first. According to The Guardian, in a 6-3 decision split along partisan lines, the court effectively dismantled Section 2 of the landmark 1965 law, the last stronghold preventing racial…