Here’s a piece of good news at last – racial gerrymandering is racial gerrymandering.
Alabama Republicans illegally discriminated against Black voters when they drew the state’s seven new congressional districts last year and must quickly redraw the plan, a federal court has ruled.
The ruling is hugely consequential, a blunt assessment of the way lawmakers use their power to draw district lines to dilute the influence of Black and other minority voters.
Pending lawsuits in North Carolina and Texas similarly allege that lawmakers illegally drew districts on the basis of race.
It sounds as if this could be the undoing of the Shelby ruling. Unless of course the Supremes get involved.
… Read the restThe seventh congressional district in Alabama, which