Supreme Court's Racial Gerrymandering Cases Signal Major Voting Rights Battles
TL;DR
The Supreme Court recently struck down Alabama's racially gerrymandered maps in Allen v. Milligan, signaling a potential rollback of protections under the Voting Rights Act, with the Court's conservative majority generally hostile to challenges against gerrymandering, raising concerns about worsening partisan and racial gerrymandering in the future.
Topics:nationpolitics#allen-v-milligan#gerrymandering#jim-crow#politics#supreme-court#voting-rights-act
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