Liberals are getting nervous about November’s midterm elections after the Supreme Court handed Republicans a huge victory, which could signal how the justices might rule on a pending Voting Rights Act issue.
On Monday night, the high court ruled on a gerrymandering case and paused a lower court order that would have required New York state to redraw its congressional maps in an effort to aid black and Latino voters,accordingto SCOTUS Blog.
Justice Samuel Alito wrote a concurring opinion to the unsigned emergency order, calling the original ruling “unadorned racial discrimination.”
This is a massive victory for Republicans in more ways than one.
Not only does it preserve New York’s 11th congressional district — the only district in New York City held by Republicans — but it also hints that the Supreme Court may be inclined to strike down part of the Voting Rights Act.
Such a ruling would eliminate race-based districts and, with it, a significant number of Democratic seats in the House.
The New York Timeswas forced to admit that the most recent ruling was a “Republican win,” but the liberal panic was only beginning to set in.
The real fear emerged later in the article, when the authors linked it to the case ofLouisiana v. Callais.
The main question in that case is whether Louisiana violated the Constitution when it created a second majority-minority district.
If the answer is “yes,” it would “scramble the country’s congressional maps,” the article noted.
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