U.S. top court to review Virginia voting districts in race case

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

SUPREME COURT NOVEMBER 13, 2018 / 11:01 AM / UPDATED 28 MINUTES AGO

U.S. top court to review Virginia voting districts in race case

Lawrence Hurley
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday said it will review for a second time whether Republican legislators in Virginia drew electoral districts in the state in a way that unlawfully diluted the clout of black voters.

The high court will hear an appeal by the Republican-led state House of Delegates of a June ruling by a federal three-judge panel that said the 11 state House districts in question all violated the rights of black voters to equal protection under the law under the U.S. Constitution’s 14th Amendment.

Democrats have accused Republicans in Virginia and other states of crafting such legislative maps in a way that crams black and other minority voters into certain districts in order to reduce their overall sway in the state.

When the litigation first reached the high court, the justices last year threw out an earlier lower court ruling that had found the 11 districts, as well as one other district, to be lawful. The justices said the lower court had not sufficiently analyzed the consideration of race by the Republican legislators in the process of drawing Virginia’s electoral map.

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[AJT]

1. With the make up of the current SCOTUS the GOP will win.

So if gerrymandering is going to be legal......I guess the dems should fight fire with fire when the next round of drawing districts is in our hands.