Supreme Court clears way for new Alabama election map
The Supreme Court’s 6-3 ruling clears the way for Alabama to implement a new congressional map, giving Republicans a significant advantage, Fox News reports. Karl Rove, former White House Deputy Chief of Staff, details the controversial second district map’s design. John Yoo, a UC Berkeley Law Professor, then addresses Justice Sotomayor’s dissent, which argues the map violates the 14th Amendment by diluting Black voters’ power.
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As they push to flip the House and capture the chamber’s majority in this year’s midterm elections, Democrats are facing a steeper hill to climb, thanks to two blockbuster court rulings.
The Virginia Supreme Court decision last week to strike down the state’s voter-passed congressional redistricting ballot measure, coupled with the ruling a week earlier by the Supreme Court to slash a key protection in the 1965 Voting Rights Act, were major setbacks for Democrats.
The twin rulings gave President Donald Trump and Republicans a major boost in their high-stakes mid-decade redistricting battle with Democrats, giving the House GOP a bit of breathing room as they defend their razor-thin majority in the midterms. At stake is which party will control the House and the Senate during the final two years of Trump’s second term in the White House.
SOUTH CAROLINA REPUBLICANS DEFY TRUMP, TANK REDISTRICTING, FOR NOW
The Virginia redistricting map that was narrowly approved by voters in a special election last month was struck down last week by the Virginia Supreme Court. (Virginia Legislative Information System)
The Virginia decision negated four more likely left-leaning congressional districts in that state. Meanwhile, the Supreme Court ruling, which determined that race should not dictate the redrawing of legislative district maps, spurred a slew of Republican-controlled southern states to quickly redraw their maps and create more right-leaning seats…
