Voting rights groups are concerned that the always compliant majority of the #SCOTUS will invalidate section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, which prohibits racial #gerrymander. Should that occur, the #Republican party would be almost assured of ruling the House of Representatives in perpetuity. https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/08/republicans-scotus-vra-00597212
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@maeve_bkk no, that gets the case backwards.
The issue before SCOTUS is that lower courts found section 2 to REQUIRE racial gerrymander.
The argument is that in requiring racial gerrymander, section 2 is unconstitutional.
The confusion in Louisiana v. Callais highlights that VRA may have had best of intentions, but is kind of a mess to implement.
@volkris I will suspend judgement until the case is argued and information is made public.