Supreme Court rejects Alabama’s congressional map with just one majority-Black district

The solution: on every census going forward, every one check “black.”

Some white kids have been claiming to be black or Hispanic when applying colleges.

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The solution: on every census going forward, every one check “black.”

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Can one identify as "black", as a man
now can identify as a woman? Or a dog?

There should be no gerrymandering. All districts should be based on parish or county sizes. Period. Full stop.

Gerrymandering in itself is bullshite, but the Supremes putting a stamp on doing so on account of a specific race is a bizarre precedent that I fail to see as Consitutional. But the SC has pretty much abandoned the Constitution at their own whim.

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Bama can draw another map. Add just one black household each time. Sooner or later, you'll hit the mark.

By then, it'll be 2026

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Another possibility is a court drawn map

Why even keep the districts contiguous? They connect 2 black areas by a long thin line and eit's stupid. Let's create 5 normal districts as if everyone was White. Now create 2 black districts called bdnorth and bdsouth and black households can vote in their bd district. The bd black rep will do what black reps do, keep the welfare coming, promote affirmative action, and blame whitey. The other geographic districts, even though peppered with black district households, will do what they normally do, represent their geographic area.

Congressional maps should, whenever possible, follow established borders, such as city/parish/county. In larger, denser locations, they may have to follow city council districts or other voting precincts.

Under no circumstances should congressional districts be gerrymandered, for any reason.

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Ask the Alabama legislature why they drew the maps with the intent for black voters to have as little impact as possible

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Ask the Alabama legislature why they must draw the maps with the intent for white voters to have a lesser impact

Ask the Alabama legislature why they must draw the maps with the intent for hispanic voters to have no impact

Ask the Alabama legislature why they must draw the maps with the intent for asian voters to have no impact

LGBTQXOPEVAW crowd gonna be pissed too!!

While an outcome to the contrary was plausible, this is not a decision I would get too worked up about. First, the reason for no Hispanic or Asian district is that the Voting Rights Acts was designed to remedy longstanding deprivation of the ability of Black people to vote. For better or worse, we are still under that system in which race can and must be taken into account in setting districts. Interestingly, the Court has signaled that race will essentially cease to be considered. Here is the portion of the article:

"Two conservatives — Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Brett Kavanaugh — joined the three liberal justices in the majority in the Supreme Court ruling in June.

But the court did leave open future challenges to the law, with Kavanaugh writing in a separate opinion that his vote did not rule out challenges to Section 2 based on whether there is a time when the 1965 law’s authorization of considering race in redistricting is no longer justified."