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Why are we doing Jim Crow again
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Anonymous 1d

I don’t fucking know. They’re not even hiding it. It’s appalling

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Anonymous 1d

what are you on about now lmao

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 1d

Racial gerrymandering was re-legalized on the 29th when SCOTUS decided Louisiana v. Callais

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Anonymous replying to -> amethyst_headphone51 23h

was pretty explicitly made so we can not gerrymander on the basis of race¿

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 23h

You must be new here.

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 23h

No it wasn’t, but that’s an easy misunderstanding to have. It was made to remove one of the primary safeguards against racial gerrymandering as (allegedly) unconstitutional. § 2 of the VRA was enacted specifically because the strategies Louisiana used in 2022 were a workaround that enabled racial gerrymandering under the previous version of the VRA. The Supreme Court has declared that those same workarounds are once again legal.

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Anonymous replying to -> amethyst_headphone51 23h

Everything Justice Alito and his accomplices said about prohibiting racial gerrymandering is bunk. All that’s prohibited now is CALLING it racial gerrymandering when you do it. And they quite literally did this on the basis that we “don’t need” such protection for voting rights anymore when that’s literally how this case started. They quite literally have thrown us back into m Jim Crow era districting policy.

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