This GW Bush judge who just refused to block part of the GOP’s NC Senate gerrymander said at oral arguments that the Black-supported Democrat winning just 1 of 31 races meant the district didn’t dilute Black voters’ power, instead of confirming that it did wral.com/story/federal-…
This GW Bush judge who just refused to block part of the GOP’s NC Senate gerrymander said at oral arguments that the Black-supported Democrat winning just 1 of 31 races meant the district didn’t dilute Black voters’ power, instead of confirming that it did wral.com/story/federal-… https://t.co/APM3BfNX2L
Thanks to the Supreme Court’s right-wingers gutting the Voting Rights Act in 2013 & upholding partisan gerrymanders ever since, they’ve regularly let the GOP use gerrymanders that discriminate against Black voters in at least 1 election even if the maps are later overturned
At left are North Carolina's GOP-gerrymandered 1st & 2nd Senate districts, which a judge just refused to block. Both are heavily white & easily went for Trump. At right is a plaintiff demonstration map where one seat would become heavily Black, 57-43 Biden, & far more compact
Voting Rights Act plaintiffs offered another North Carolina Senate demonstration district that splits no counties, & it's also majority-Black & compact storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco… A scatter plot of Black VAP % vs. Biden % by voting district there indicates racially polarized voting