Posted on Dec 6, 2023
Former Confederate states openly defying court rulings on Black voting rights: analysis
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Georgia, Louisiana, and Alabama — three states that were part of the Confederacy that was founded in part to maintain the institution of slavery — are now at the forefront of a new effort to rebel against court rulings aimed at securing the voting rights of Black Americans.
The Atlantic's David Graham writes that those three states' Republican-led state legislatures have, in recent months, shown a defiant attitude toward legal mandates that they redraw their voting maps so as not to dilute the power of Black voters in their states.
Although Graham said it would be possible to dismiss one of these states' resistance to court orders as an aberration, he thinks that having three states engaged in the same conduct makes it part of a dangerous trend.
"That state politicians now see incentives to defy federal-court orders, for whatever reason, poses a danger to national unity, the rule of law, and, ultimately, the Constitution," he writes.
Georgia, Louisiana, and Alabama — three states that were part of the Confederacy that was founded in part to maintain the institution of slavery — are now at the forefront of a new effort to rebel against court rulings aimed at securing the voting rights of Black Americans.
The Atlantic's David Graham writes that those three states' Republican-led state legislatures have, in recent months, shown a defiant attitude toward legal mandates that they redraw their voting maps so as not to dilute the power of Black voters in their states.
Although Graham said it would be possible to dismiss one of these states' resistance to court orders as an aberration, he thinks that having three states engaged in the same conduct makes it part of a dangerous trend.
"That state politicians now see incentives to defy federal-court orders, for whatever reason, poses a danger to national unity, the rule of law, and, ultimately, the Constitution," he writes.
Former Confederate states openly defying court rulings on Black voting rights: analysis
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This is a joke. I remember there was a Black politician named Charles Walker who lives in Augusta. Mr Walker was extremely powerful politician and was first black Senate Majority leader. Walker wanted his son elected to the US senate so he crafted a “ black district” that stretched from Athens Georgia to Savanah, that is a distance of over 200 miles. The district looked like a spaghetti noodle thrown at a map of Georgia. Charles Walker’s son wasn’t the brightest stop light on a Georgia back road. To claim gerrymandering is a Republican conservative activity is beyond stupid.
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Gerrymandering by all sides should be stopped! Districts should be set based on population period. Make them square, rectangular, whatever. But each district should have the same numbers, regardless race. Some districts I have lived in up looked like a jig-saw puzzle with a lot of missing pieces.
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I guess you never heard of Corrine Brown, Congresswoman from Jacksonville Fl. Her district was a thin line linking several black communities. That's gerrymandering.
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