Louisiana will ask Supreme Court to overturn key part of Voting Rights Act, invalidate map

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Source: nola.com

WASHINGTON – Louisiana is now urging the U.S. Supreme Court to rule a key section of the Voting Rights Act unconstitutional, which would throw out the state's congressional map that has two minority-majority districts.

“The Constitution forbids sorting voters by race. And telling legislators drawing maps to think about race, but not think too much about race, is an untenable standard,” Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill said after releasing Wednesday afternoon a 58-page brief filed with the Supreme Court.

Louisiana had previously defended the maps, saying they had created them under protest when a federal judge ruled a previous map with one minority district unconstitutional. But, after the Supreme Court asked for arguments on whether Section Two of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 is constitutional, the state changed direction.

“We have consistently argued that the U.S. Supreme Court’s redistricting jurisprudence needs to be drastically changed or overruled,” Murrill said. “By requiring state legislatures to draw maps that sort voters by race, it forces us to violate the federal Constitution."

Read more: https://www.nola.com/news/politics/louisiana-liz-murril-callais-redistricting/article_1eb09d83-6beb-4356-895f-4b25de51407a.html#tncms-source=featured-2

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1. The court's request for additional briefing hints that they're ready to kill what remains of the VRA

"Whether the State’s intentional creation of a second majority-minority congressional district violates the Fourteenth or Fifteenth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution"

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2. Ask? LOL - that opinion was written in November 2016

Anyone....ANYONE who doesn't know this MAGAt Supreme Court of the Confederacy, will do whatever the MAGAt state of Louisiana wants them to do, is DELUSIONAL.

The ONLY delay in the "opinion", will be the felonious, pedophile supporting 6, trying to find the weasel words that will allow red states to do whatever the fuck they want, while somehow blocking Blue States from doing the same.

This opinion could be written by Fascist developed AI.

It would save us all the wasted time of listening to pundits opining that there is a bridge this SC won't cross.

Can we stop pretending it's not a done deal?

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3. They aren't even trying to hide it

If you are a Person of Color and vote Republican you are supporting a party that hates you.