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Supreme Court has ruled two black majority districts in Louisiana.

Posted on 5/15/24 at 4:47 pm
Posted by Tvilletiger
PVB
Member since Oct 2015
5059 posts
Posted on 5/15/24 at 4:47 pm
That’s very interesting . Who does this effect? Is anybody out of a job possibly?
Posted by waiting4saturday
Covington, LA
Member since Sep 2005
9747 posts
Posted on 5/15/24 at 4:49 pm to
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Is anybody out of a job possibly?


yeah Garrett Graves
Posted by Timeoday
Easter Island
Member since Aug 2020
9141 posts
Posted on 5/15/24 at 4:50 pm to
How is this Constitutional?
Posted by PsychTiger
Member since Jul 2004
99431 posts
Posted on 5/15/24 at 4:51 pm to
How many are there currently?
Posted by Adam Banks
District 5
Member since Sep 2009
32070 posts
Posted on 5/15/24 at 4:51 pm to
Link?
Posted by deeprig9
Unincorporated Ozora, Georgia
Member since Sep 2012
64295 posts
Posted on 5/15/24 at 4:54 pm to
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How is this Constitutional?


Congress passed laws in the civil rights era to combat Jim Crow laws regarding elections. Southern states now have to get their gerrymandering approved by the federal government, to this day, all these years later. It's constitutional because congress passed it, the president signed it, it is law.
Posted by TarHeel408
NC
Member since Mar 2017
1410 posts
Posted on 5/15/24 at 5:04 pm to
It was a 5-3 ruling. Trump should have put Southerners like Bill Pryor, Andrew Brasher and Keith Blackwell on SCOTUS instead of a bunch of Yankees. The current court is not as conservative as it could be.
Posted by Triggerr
Member since Jul 2013
1897 posts
Posted on 5/15/24 at 5:06 pm to
Clearly Cleo fields has some extremely compromising pictures of Jeff Landry. This makes no sense at all. This will have major local and national impact
Posted by Night Vision
Member since Feb 2018
5199 posts
Posted on 5/15/24 at 5:11 pm to
Did the same type of thing in AL.
Posted by ForeverEllisHugh
Baton Rouge
Member since Aug 2016
14875 posts
Posted on 5/15/24 at 5:12 pm to
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It's constitutional because congress passed it, the president signed it


Traitor to the South and pervert flasher LBJ fricking us from hell
This post was edited on 5/15/24 at 5:13 pm
Posted by udtiger
Over your left shoulder
Member since Nov 2006
99312 posts
Posted on 5/15/24 at 5:15 pm to
So...racial discrimination is okay.

Noted
Posted by Adam Banks
District 5
Member since Sep 2009
32070 posts
Posted on 5/15/24 at 5:17 pm to
The Republican governor wanted this
Posted by Turbeauxdog
Member since Aug 2004
23296 posts
Posted on 5/15/24 at 5:19 pm to
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It's constitutional because congress passed it, the president signed it, it is law.


That's not how it works, lol.
Posted by teke184
Zachary, LA
Member since Jan 2007
96543 posts
Posted on 5/15/24 at 5:22 pm to
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The Republican governor wanted this

Governor wanted this shite to go away.

Making the map they did was to prevent the judge from making a map to use instead of the legislature’s map.
Posted by Adam Banks
District 5
Member since Sep 2009
32070 posts
Posted on 5/15/24 at 5:23 pm to
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Governor wanted this shite to go away. Making the map they did was to prevent the judge from making a map to use instead of the legislature’s ma



The governor wanted the map like this to settle a feud with Garrett Graves.
Posted by Jack Carter
Member since Sep 2018
10549 posts
Posted on 5/15/24 at 5:26 pm to
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How is this Constitutional?


Because blackness > The Constitution
Posted by chili pup
Member since Sep 2011
2799 posts
Posted on 5/15/24 at 5:28 pm to
Alabama just did the same thing I believe with the second congressional district of Alabama. May have been the 3rd. I don't remember.
Posted by doubleb
Baton Rouge
Member since Aug 2006
36264 posts
Posted on 5/15/24 at 5:31 pm to
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The governor wanted the map like this to settle a feud with Garrett Graves.


The Governor put personal politics ahead of what’s best for our state.
Posted by choupiquesushi
yaton rouge
Member since Jun 2006
30762 posts
Posted on 5/15/24 at 5:35 pm to
Gerrymandering is wrong no matter how u slice it., they should challenge the original law
Posted by CreoleTigerEsq
Noneya
Member since Nov 2007
612 posts
Posted on 5/15/24 at 5:35 pm to
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Clearly Cleo fields has some extremely compromising pictures of Jeff Landry. This makes no sense at all.


During the gubernatorial election last year, Cleo Fields backroom-dealed his way with Jeff Landry to ensure that Jeff Landry would have a majority black district drawn favorable to him if he would run.

Cleo Fields basically backed off on publicly supporting Shawn Wilson to ensure that Jeff Landry would win the governor's race without going to a runoff, and the payback was Landry not opposing an additional majority black Congressional district.

You should go and view the Senate and Governmental Affairs committee hearings during the special session that was held in January. Senator Womack mistakenly mentioned an off the record meeting that Cleo Fields attended about the manner in which the district was drawn. Womack had to clean up blurting this out in the middle of a meeting.

The day after the legislature voted in the majority black district, Cleo Fields submitted a press release announcing his run for the Congressional district. Almost a week after another decision was issued by the 5th Circuit holding the majority minority district as an unconstitutional violation of the 14th Amendment, Liz Murrill filed a request to stay the decision by the 5th Circuit pending a ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court regarding the manner in which the majority minority district was drawn.

None of this was by happenstance.

He's being backed by big dollar donor Jim Bernhardt.
This post was edited on 5/15/24 at 6:01 pm
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