Jezebel: Sex. Celebrity. Politics. With Teeth: Alabama Supreme Court Rips State Map That Gerrymandered Black Votes in Scathing Ruling https://jezebel.com/alabama-supreme-court-rips-state-map-that-gerrymandered-1850805106?utm_source=regular #Jezebel #redistrictingintheunitedstates #alabamascongressionaldistricts #votingrightsact #gerrymandering #allenvmilligan #stanleymarcus #redistricting #terrymoorer #annamanasco #wesallen #politics #lawcrime #alabama

Federal court blocks Alabama's congressional map, orders new lines drawn - #Alabama Reflector

A three-judge federal panel Tuesday ruled that a new Alabama congressional map failed to address #VotingRightsAct violations and ordered a third party to draw new lines.
#vra #rights #votingrights #civilrights
https://alabamareflector.com/2023/09/05/federal-court-blocks-alabamas-congressional-map-orders-new-lines-drawn/

#Alabama's congressional map is struck down again for diluting #Black voters' power

A panel of 3 federal judges has struck down Alabama's latest map of congressional #ElectionDistricts for not following a court order to comply w/the landmark #VotingRightsAct.

In an order released Tues, the judges said they are "deeply troubled that the State enacted a map that the State readily admits does not provide the remedy we said #federal #law requires."

https://www.npr.org/2023/09/05/1193749552/alabama-congressional-map?origin=NOTIFY

Here it is, directly explained: "#Socialism" is and always has been a #dogwhistle.

"Since Reconstruction, reactionary racists had maintained that Black voters would elect lawmakers who would give them benefits that could only be paid for through tax levies on those with property, which generally meant white men. Black voting, they insisted, would lead to a redistribution of wealth and thus was essentially socialism." #votingrightsact #freedommarch #uspolitics

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/august-25-2023

Florida judge expresses doubt over Ron DeSantis’ redistricting arguments in case with potential national impact

Lawyers for the state of Florida admit Ron DeSantis' congressional maps diminished Black voting power and violated the state's Constitution.

Their defense of those maps opens the door to the ruling being used to dismantle voting protections nationwide.

https://jaxtrib.org/2023/08/24/judge-expresses-doubt-over-gov-ron-desantis-redistricting-arguments/

#Racism #DeSantis #RonDeSantis #CivilRights #VotingRightsAct #VotingRights
#Democracy #politics #GOP

On Aug. 28, 1963, a crowd of a quarter-million people came together on the National Mall with a shared purpose of striving for #socialjustice, the end of #segregation, #fairwages, economic #opportunities and the rights of full #citizenship. Many historians credit the march for pressuring the #Kennedy administration to act on #civilrights, eventually leading to the passage of the #CivilRightsAct in 1964 and the #VotingRightsAct of 1965. The momentous day concluded with #King delivering his iconic “#IHaveaDream” speech at the Lincoln Memorial.

https://artdaily.com/news/161465/Smithsonian-museum-recognizes-the-60th-anniversary-of-the-March-on-Washington

https://hartmannreport.com/p/the-shocking-voter-purge-crisis-of-c66

#corruptscotus #caging: most of the #purge activity was taking place in former Confederate Red states that — before five Republicans on the Supreme Court gutted the #VotingRightsAct in their 2013 #ShelbyCounty decision — had to have purges pre-cleared

#JohnLewisVotingRightsAct #ExpandTheCourt

Alabama #GOP rejects democracy outright. SCOTUS ruled that the 2020 #Alabama congressional districting map violates the #VotingRightsAct and that a new map is required. #GQP lawmakers simply refused.

Alabama attorney general Steve Marshall: “What we believe fully is that we just live in a red state with conservative people, and that’s who the candidates of Alabama want to be able to elect going forward.”
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/august-10-2023

Alabama lawmakers refuse to create a 2nd majority-Black congressional district

"Alabama lawmakers on Friday refused to create a second majority-Black congressional district, a move that could defy a recent order from the U.S. Supreme Court to give minority voters a greater voice in elections and trigger a renewed battle over the state's political map."

https://www.npr.org/2023/07/21/1189494854/alabama-redistricting-map-black-districts

#Alabama #politics #institutional #racism #VotingRightsAct #voting #rights #representation

Alabama Republicans, despite Supreme Court ruling, reject call for second majority Black district

https://apnews.com/article/alabama-redistricting-voting-rights-act-3d7a5c9e85c8a11b20ae732cfe68cfd4

#AlabamaRepublicans #SupremeCourtRuling #Redistricting #VotingRightsAct #MajorityBlackDistrict #Alabama #Politics #News

"#Panther offers the extraordinary little-told story of the first year the #VotingRightsAct was put to the test, in 1966, deep in the heart of the Jim Crow South. That election would reverberate across the nation, from Alabama to Oakland to the halls of Congress, changing the course of history through to the #VotingRights battles of today."

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/reckon-radio/id1420215603

#BlackPower #BlackPowerMovement #BlackPanthers #BlackLiberation #CivilRightsMovement #BlackHistory #USHistory

#ReckonRadio

https://overcast.fm/+5wvnQfFKI

the #court does not expect us to agree with the #principles that are espoused in these #decisions, but they expect us to agree that these are principled decisions. And on the #shadowdocket, when most of these #rulings have no #explanation whatsoever, that really, really complicates the story, especially when, as we've seen over the last five or six years, the #pattern looks far more #nefarious.

#ShelbyCounty #VotingRightsAct
#PurchasedJustice #PlantationCourt #corruptconservativescotus
#CorruptEqualsConservative

Big sigh of relief! Now it's up to Congress to pass the #VotingRightsAct to protect everyone's right to vote.

Opinion (PDF): https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/22pdf/21-1271_3f14.pdf

https://abc7ny.com/supreme-court-case-elections-moore-v-harper-decision-independent-state-legislature-scotus/13231544/

@Nonya_Bidniss - It is not as if the next candidate, Desatan, is any better than Trump. I would like to see Trump try to run from the courtroom though (like Adolf Hitler once campaigned at his trial).

@POTUS + @kamalaharris are the ONLY choice in 2024, especially when @GOP have leapt off the authoritarian deep-end.
I also hope Dems can recapture the House so that we can pass #VotingRightsAct and protections for Roe vs. Wade. 🤞

🧵 (2\2) #RandiRhodes #MMFlint #Reparations
And "dangerous" b/c it raises the specter of "okay, we've even now. No more need for #AffirmativeAction".

No more #VotingRightsAct to protect minorities from #GerryMandering & #RedLining. Red States are *sure* to embrace this new "equality" and make it *illegal* for any business to "discriminate" (which they will define) against whites.

"#Reparations" in the form of gov't services or opportunity is the way to go. But "cash" to individuals? Yeesh.

#VotingRightsAct #SCOTUS

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas dissented in Thursday's 5-4 ruling on Allen v. Milligan.

He wrote a nearly-50-page dissent about his disagreement with the ruling.

Thursday's ruling found that Alabama violated the Voting Rights Act's ban on racial gerrymandering by redrawing
congressional districts that discriminate against Black voters in the state by largely clumping them together into one district.

https://news.yahoo.com/clarence-thomas-wrote-scathing-nearly-174813305.html

#VotingRightsAct #SCOTUS

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas dissented in Thursday's 5-4 ruling on Allen v. Milligan.

He wrote a nearly-50-page dissent about his disagreement with the ruling.

Thursday's ruling found that Alabama violated the Voting Rights Act's ban on racial gerrymandering by redrawing
congressional districts that discriminate against Black voters in the state by largely clumping them together into one district.

https://news.yahoo.com/clarence-thomas-wrote-scathing-nearly-174813305.html

The #VotingRightsAct Is Still Standing, For Now
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQ3vQcEWk5k

#Alabama #gerrymandering

New Yorker: Why the Supreme Court Declined an Opportunity to Diminish the Voting Rights Act https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/why-the-supreme-court-declined-an-opportunity-to-diminish-the-voting-rights-act #NewYorker #VotingRightsAct #Redistricting #SupremeCourt #JohnRoberts #News/Q.&A. #Election #Alabama

New Yorker: The Supreme Court’s Surprise Defense of the Voting Rights Act https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/the-supreme-courts-surprise-defense-of-the-voting-rights-act #NewYorker #News/DailyComment #U.S.SupremeCourt #VoterSuppression #VotingRightsAct #Alabama