#SCOTUS, in a 5–4 ruling, affirms #VotingRightsAct protection against racial vote dilution. https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/22pdf/21-1086_1co6.pdf
“This decision is a crucial win against the continued onslaught of attacks on voting rights,” says ACLU LDF senior counsel Deuel Ross, who argued the case before #SCOTUS in October. “Alabama attempted to rewrite federal law by saying race had no place in redistricting." https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/u-s-supreme-court-rules-alabamas-congressional-map-violates-the-voting-rights-act-by-diluting-black-political-power
Today’s #SCOTUS decision "confirms the basic principle that voting practices should not discriminate on account of race, but our work is not done," says President Biden in a statement.
Ha! I think he has it backwards.
As I recall, one of the arguments the state was making was that it should not consider race, while the courts said the opposite, that race MUST be part of the process.
The court rejected the idea that voting practices should not discriminate on account of race, saying that the law requires discrimination to make up for past injustices.
