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The Supreme Court issued a 6-3 ruling in Louisiana v. Callais that significantly narrows the scope of the 1965 Voting Rights Act (VRA) in redistricting cases. The justices sided with Louisiana officials who argued that a newly drawn congressional map creating a second majority-black district amounted to unconstitutional racial gerrymandering.

Writing for the majority, Justice Samuel Alito said the VRA does not require states to adopt race-based maps absent strong evidence of past discrimination. The decision is set to create ripple effects throughout the country to the GOP’s benefit — particularly in the South.

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Charles Williams6 months ago

Absolutely the court made the right decision.

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david kerkhoff6 months ago

yes

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Don G6 months ago

Agreed the court made the correct decision. I would hope both parties would grow up start acting like adults and not 10 year olds having temper tantrums. (My apologies to 10 year olds)

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Salvatore Quasarano6 months ago

Yes they made the right decision! Salvatore Q.

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Jim Powers 6 months ago

Yes, a little late.

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Fred Scott6 months ago

Most certainly, this judgment is correct!

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Michael H.6 months ago

Absolutely YES. The left has been rigging voting maps based on race since the VRA came into existence.

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Stephen Lykins6 months ago

Absolutely, districts comprised wholly, or even primarily, of any given race are racist!

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J Y6 months ago

Yes! Unfortunately, today’s leftist will clearly take it “to death” if they don’t get their way. This is a truly horrific temper tantrum. I don’t have the words to express my concern or disgust.

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Photo Man6 months ago

JY, preach it far & wide!!!!

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Glenda Noe6 months ago

Absolutely!

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Chris Carbott6 months ago

This is 100% the right decision! Redistricting is supposed to be about NUMBERS, not COLORS or even Party affiliations. There is no Constitutional justification for rigging the map in order that someone's preferred demographic is guaranteed a seat!

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JJW JJW6 months ago

Yes, if w can't discriminate because of race, creed and many more reasons, why not make equal voting blocks by population. If a state has 5 million voters divide into 5 or more voting blocks or squares. JJW

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Linda W6 months ago

Yes!

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Binh Duong6 months ago

The Islamist-Marxist Democrats are the minority. The only reason the elections appears to be 50-50 is due to their cheating. The Marxist Democrats will not win when we have ID for voting, the voter rolls audited, and in person voting. Why do you think they fight so hard not to turn over their voters rolls? This ruling is correct, because it is wrong to draw these maps based on race.

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Bob Hrebec6 months ago

Blacks aren't the only ones that can play the racism card! ✊🏻

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David Hooten6 months ago

Absolutely! We are far past needing racially based remedies. There should be NO racial components any longer.

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Leon Powell6 months ago

Yes ! Any time someone is given an advantage or disadvantage based only on their race it's racism.

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Ralph Phares 6 months ago

Based on what I'm able to understand, yes. The Democrats have made no secret they would do anything to win any election going forward and this maneuver smacks of just such a move. James Carville has encouraged the Democrat body politic to do exactly whatever needs to be done to ensure a Democrat win, even if it is illegal.

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Jim Ahern6 months ago

More and more political games is all this has ever been about since the 60's. Is it really a coincidence that our country has been on a downward spiral since then? Bad people, pushing unreasonable, racial/gender based b.s. policies along the way and evidently nobody truly taking these asinine policies of the past 60 yrs. to task. It just speaks to the pathetic (go along to get along) stance of the Republican Party allowing these anti-American parasites (Socialists/Commies/Marxists - aka Dem Party) to get away with all this crap for these past 6 decades. The beauty is, this is how you fix it by removing the bad actors across the board, not with elections, but by purely identifying there self-character and if out of line with the principles, foundations and moral fiber of our once great country, then your gone immediately and need not apply if your a running candidate. Not that hard to solve in reality..

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James Coutu6 months ago

Absolutely Democrats manipulating it for years

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John Fritz6 months ago

YES!

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Cyndee Pacheco6 months ago

Yes