re: SCOTUS rules on Callais

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I do believe Louisiana has enough minority residents to justify a 2nd district, ...

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What is this talk about a '2nd District" The number of districts is based on the latest census, and that puts LA at six.

Are you talking about something else?

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Will those states redistrict in time?

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I think the timer on that won't start until there's a lawsuit, so it's going to vary from district to district. I was hearing something earlier where someone made an estimate of it taking ~6 months for a state to re-district.

For us here in Louisiana, I wouldn't expect them to get it done in time for this year's election. The legislature will likely dither for the rest of this session to create a need for a special session (read: per diem pay) after regular session is over. They'll dither a bit more and then probably submit something just a smidge too late for this election cycle.

Looks like Lucy McBath in GA-6 is gonna have to move again.

As bad as some of these min/maj gerrymandering districts have been in Congress, wait till you see how this impacts the state-level House, Senate, and lower-level maps.

In Louisiana alone, 29 House + 11 Senate majority-Black districts will be under automatic scrutiny. Now start looking at parish and city councils, as well as school board districts, across the state.

Texas will be a blood bath for the democrats as well. In truth this will have a huge impact at the local level all across the south.

Head throbbing? That's the idea.

And La AG! And both chambers of Congress! But most especially the trial lawyer governor

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As bad as some of these min/maj gerrymandering districts have been in Congress, wait till you see how this impacts the state-level House, Senate, and lower-level maps.

In Louisiana alone, 29 House + 11 Senate majority-Black districts will be under automatic scrutiny. Now start looking at parish and city councils, as well as school board districts, across the state.

Texas will be a blood bath for the democrats as well. In truth this will have a huge impact at the local level all across the south.

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Exactly correct ... 110%. This is huge for our beloved South. But why?

It's huge on a State level, as you have already eluded to. But it's also huge on a Federal level because ....

1 - The '65 VRA was predicated on race, based upon race, because at the time the South had the largest per capita black population and the yankees knew that.

What was it that LBJ said? Paraphrasing ... "Once we sign this Bill into law we'll own the black vote forever," or something like that.

2 - Disenfranchised yankees have been moving South in droves. Our population has tripled since the mid-60s. And in the process we've been gaining voting power on a Federal level ... which the dems have tried to negate by gerrymandering. That is now overwith ... caput. In essence, it's a 24 seat swing in the South -12/+12 ... and that's huge.

So here's the next hurdle to overcome.

The SAVE Act. The democrats saw this coming and they've been trying to compensate with importing illegals for the sole purpose of illegal voting and anchor babies who are awarded birthright citizenship. How do we correct that? We keep fighting for The SAVE Act to be passed. We gain a solid majority and then get the law passed. That's gotta be next.

Obama made it clear what their objectives were during his exit interview in 2016 when he stated that his actions wouldn't be immediately felt, but that long term the anchor babies would one day be voters. And he doubled down in his third term during the Biden administration.

Oh, district # 2 of the six. I just read it wrong, brain-fart on my part, thanks.

This really isn’t fair to any of them, for different reasons. Until this ruling today, Judge Dick’s ruling was very much in line with VRA precedent, which was drastically altered today.