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A Supreme Court redistricting ruling gave hope to Black voters. They're still waiting for new maps

apnews.com A Supreme Court redistricting ruling gave hope to Black voters. They're still waiting for new maps

The Supreme Court’s decision siding with Black voters in an Alabama redistricting case gave Democrats and voting rights activist a surprising opportunity before the 2024 elections to have congressional maps redrawn in a handful of states.

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Khadidah Stone, a plaintiff in the Alabama case, said the continuing opposition was “appalling” but “not surprising.” She noted that Alabama is where then-Gov. George Wallace blocked Black students from integrating the University of Alabama in 1963.
“There is a long history there of disobeying court orders to deny Black people our rights,” she said.
I grew up in Alabama and remember some people here being proud that Wallace was fighting for them (the whites)
Alabama's Republican Roy Moore also defied the the supreme court over same sex marriage and the 10 commandments monument.
Republicans don't believe in democracy.

Easy solution: All elections in the state after the supreme Court decision need to be invalid and on hold until the new redistricting is approved.
Don't get it done by the next election? Sorry, your ballots and electrics don't count.
It's disenfranchisement, but for everyone, not just the ones whose gerrymandering selected.
- Letting the people who refuse to give up power, STAY in power is not a solution.
  The president had to send in the national guard to enforce the ruling with the school decision with Gov. Wallace.
- Nope. You hold every politician in the state of Alabama in contempt, issue warrants, arrest them then force them to meet and redraw the maps in jail till they meet the requirements of the court decision.
  Sounds good at least.
- Why don’t we just use county lines for representation until maps are drawn. It’s predetermined and while counties do typically lean politically, they’re not developed around political lines. That way we don’t halt all progress until a map is redrawn. Delaying the redrawing is a strategy on its own so take away the benefits of delay
  
  Districts need to have equal population, counties don't have that quality and thus won't work.

This is the best summary I could come up with:
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court’s decision siding with Black voters in an Alabama redistricting case gave Democrats and voting rights activists a surprising opportunity before the 2024 elections.
New congressional maps would have to include more districts in Alabama and potentially other states where Black voters would have a better chance of electing someone of their choice, a decision widely seen as benefiting Democrats.
Lawsuits over racially gerrymandered congressional maps in several other states, including Georgia, South Carolina and Texas, quickly followed the Supreme Court’s landmark Voting Rights Act decision in June.
Republicans want to keep their map in place as the state continues to fight the lower court ruling ordering them to create a second district where Black voters constitute a majority or close to it.
But her initial order blocking the 2022 congressional map drawn by Louisiana’s GOP-controlled Legislature -- which maintains white majorities in five of six districts in a state where about one-third of voters are Black — remains on appeal.
The high court’s decision in the Alabama case “did not present a free pass to future plaintiffs to establish (Voting Rights Act) liability without proving that the relevant minority population is itself compact,” Louisiana said in its argument.
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- Good bot!

Just get rid of the electoral college. One person one vote.
- That helps with the Presidential elections, there is still the House and local assembly. I live in Wi and hope that we can start having fair maps for our assembly. 40% of the vote shouldn’t result in 60%+ of the seats.
  Edit: I do agree that 1 person 1 vote should be the norm, we just have other issues to worry about with gerrymandering and civic engagement.

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