Tuesday, October 14, 2025

Louisiana Republicans Ask SCOTUS to Gut Voting Rights

The way Louisiana's Republican leaders put it, the pervasive racial discrimination in elections that led to the passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act is all in the past. That is why they are now urging the Supreme Court, in a case being argued on Wednesday, to bar states from using any consideration of race when drawing legislative districts, gutting a key plank of the law that was designed to ensure Black voters would have a chance of electing their preferred candidates.

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Wednesday is gonna be a rough day: The Supreme Court will be hearing oral argument in a pair of cases that threaten what little remains of the federal government's ability to protect voters from racial gerrymandering under the Voting Rights Act ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/louis ...

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pervasive racial discrimination in elections that led to the passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act is all in the past.

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#1 | Posted by Nixon at 2025-10-14 06:57 AM

I agree with this, if coupled with no Gerrymandering. Just draw squares with the required population and let the chis fall where they may.

#2 | Posted by TFDNihilist at 2025-10-14 11:07 AM

Well, while it tracks with Rep logic, it also gets rid of the gerrymandering Dems have done ever since the Act was passed by ensuring they can redraw lines that gets them more votes. All Reps are doing is trying to get rid of lines that would get them more votes. Both parties are doing the exact same thing, only Dems try to put a moral high ground in the situation by wanting to force discrimination but as a safety net. Neither side is right or wrong, they just want votes. To try to demonize it as if Reps are doing anything different than Dems is laughable. Everything is on paper for any of you to research. Dems gerrymandered so hard in the 90s that Reps are still trying to catch up today, and the facts prove it beyond any argument. Yes, Reps are fighting back by being stupid mainly because they don't have any other idea of how to counter the Dem's strategy but that still doesn't make Dems right for doing it in the first place.

In fact, the 90s gerrymandering Dems did was right before I left the Dem party and I still consider it the last great strategy Dems ever had. I personally think they outsmarted Reps so bad that Reps had no choice but to actually get less dumb or face extinction, given that Clinton was so effective as a leader. So Reps did that and Dems haven't been able to keep up, instead they have resorted to using woke politics and hypocrisy as their platform.

#3 | Posted by humtake at 2025-10-15 12:04 PM

I agree with this, if coupled with no Gerrymandering. Just draw squares with the required population and let the chis fall where they may.

#2 | Posted by TFDNihilist

Correct.

That won't happen though as this is little more than a powerplay to ensure single party dominance independently of any actual policy ideas or quality of governance.

#4 | Posted by jpw at 2025-10-15 12:16 PM

it also gets rid of the gerrymandering Dems have done ever since the Act was passed by ensuring they can redraw lines that gets them more votes.

LOL what an idiot. 'Gets rig of Dem gerrymandering where they do the definition of gerrymandering.'

Hey moron, gerrymandering doesn't get you "more votes," it maximizes the seat holdings per a given number of votes. That's why you can look at the severity of a state's gerrymandering by looking at the % of votes to each party compared to the proportion of a state's legislature or Congression district holdings by party. Or the results of statewide elections (governor or senate) compared to the legislature or US House results.

#5 | Posted by jpw at 2025-10-15 12:26 PM

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