Supreme Court just wrote a presumption of white racial innocence into the Constitution
Congratulations, guys! Racism is fixed!
IAN MILLHISER JUN 25, 2018, 11:30 AM
The Supreme Court held on Monday that white lawmakers enjoy a presumption of racial innocence, even when they draw legislative districts that empower white voters at the expense of racial minorities.
The thrust of Justice Samuel Alito’s opinion in Abbott v. Perez is that the “good faith” of a “state legislature must be presumed,” even when there are very serious allegations of racial gerrymandering. The facts of Perez are unusual and unlikely to repeat in the future, but Alito’s presumption of white racial innocence could have a significant impact on future cases.
In 2011, Texas drew racially gerrymandered maps. At the time, the Supreme Court had not yet struck down a key provision of the Voting Rights Act. Thus, the 2011 maps could not take effect until after they were “precleared” by federal officials in Washington, D.C. A federal court in D.C. ultimately concluded that the maps were not legal.
That meant that, with the 2012 elections rapidly approaching, Texas did not have any valid maps that it could use in that election. Worse, though a Texas federal district court drew maps that the state could have used in the upcoming election, the Supreme Court vacated these maps. Thus, in late January of 2012, Texas still had no maps, and primary elections were only a few months away.
The result was a rushed, March 2012 decision by the Texas court which laid out interim maps. Many of the districts in this hastily drawn interim map closely resembled the racially gerrymandered districts drawn by the state legislature in 2011. The Texas court, moreover, emphasized that “this interim map is not a final ruling on the merits of any claims asserted by the Plaintiffs in this case or any of the other cases consolidated with this case.”
https://thinkprogress.org/scotus-presumption-of-white-racial-innocence-gerrymandering-7ad4fdfc82a5/
Alito is really a asshole, he knew exactly what he was doing................
November 2018 cannot get here fast enough
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then this country will be completely third rate status.................you will not have the right to vote in a union and pay dues, when you have a "majority" say its just fine..................
You think Gor"crap" will write it after all he likes people not to complain if there going to freezing to death in truck.................
to take employee majority rule, just like there gerrymandering case decisions and really screw the public...............I do think you are right...................one or both of these pin heads..............will write for the majority.....................not good................
November 2018 cannot get here fast enough
