Supreme Court strikes down Louisiana redistricting map, raising concerns across the US

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- Since 1965, Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act has been successful place, prohibiting voting practices that discriminate connected the ground of contention oregon number status.

In the authorities of Louisiana, a projected legislature representation would person allowed 2 of the districts to beryllium majority-black, alternatively of conscionable 1 of the six.

The authorities had drawn the caller representation aft the 2020 census, which showed that much than a 3rd of the state's voting-age colonisation is Black.

The caller representation was ordered by a little court, but connected Wednesday morning, the Supreme Court declared it unconstitutional successful a 6-3 ruling.

"They fundamentally made it amerciable drafting legislature districts to instrumentality a radical number and marque it a bulk successful that district, that has been done for a agelong clip successful the Voting Rights Act, but they person present struck that down," said Fresno State Professor Thomas Holyoke.

President Donald Trump posted connected Truth Social, saying the tribunal determination is simply a large triumph for adjacent extortion nether the law, arsenic it returns the Voting Rights Act to its archetypal intent.

In a statement, Congressman Jim Costa powerfully disagrees with the precocious court's latest action, saying the following:

"Today's Supreme Court determination is simply a setback for voting rights and just representation. The Voting Rights Act was passed to halt favoritism astatine the ballot box, not to beryllium weakened by the courts. Congress indispensable walk the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act to reconstruct and modernize these protections to guarantee each American has an adjacent dependable successful our democracy."

Nate Monroe with UC Merced says that states redistricting of legislature maps has besides proven to beryllium a large governmental determination ... with respective states making that play successful the past year.

"We person seen tons of maps redrawn successful the past twelvemonth explicitly acceptable arsenic a authorities of dominos with republicans trying to counteract democrats and democrats trying to antagonistic republicans," said UC Merced Political Professor Nate Monroe.

A determination seen successful California erstwhile Proposition 50 passed past year, allowing the usage of caller legislature districts.

With the elections astir fractional a twelvemonth away, galore are funny if different states volition effort to gully caller districts, oregon person concerns that the Justices volition measurement in.

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