Louisiana, Redistricting, and the Voting Rights Act

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In North Carolina the republicans have been doing this for decades, even after:

the Federal supreme ruled against them
someone un-alived himself to cover up election fraud on the behalf of the republicans (good thing his daughter got hold of evidence and turned it in to he right people)
having to rerun an election because of republicans violated voting laws
 
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Voting Rights Act (1965)

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Section 2. No voting qualification or prerequisite to voting, or standard, practice, or procedure shall be imposed or applied by any State or political subdivision to deny or abridge the right of any citizen of the United States to vote on account of race or color.

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15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: Voting Rights (1870)

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Fortieth Congress of the United States of America;

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Article XV.

Section 1. The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude—

Section 2. The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.

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19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: Women's Right to Vote (1920)

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Sixty-sixth Congress of the United States of America; At the First Session,

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"ARTICLE ————.

"The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.

Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation."
 
Here’s how the Editorial Cartoonists are reacting to Wednesday’s decision in Louisiana v. Callais.
Some of the most accurate commentary during the Reconstruction period came from Editorial
Cartoonists like Thomas Nast. Needless to say, the reaction to the decimation of the Voting Rights Act has been pointed…

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I posted this for what happened in Nashville in Davidson County in an earlier redistricting in Tennessee.

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Redistricting transcends race; it centers on Donald Trump and the Republicans' calculated effort to manipulate the midterm elections, ensuring that Donald Trump's agenda remains in play. It's not about race; it's about Donald Trump.
 
The irony on the Tennessee redistricting is that during the 1970s there were three Black members from the south. One was Barbara Jordan out of Houston, Andrew Young out of Atlanta, and Harold Ford, Sr. in Memphis. (Mickey Leland was elected to the House and followed Barbara Jordan.) Ford represented the eight and later ninth district of Tennessee. The ninth district is the one that republicans are redistricting or cracking.
 



EB said:
The irony on the Tennessee redistricting is that during the 1970s there were three Black members from the south. One was Barbara Jordan out of Houston, Andrew Young out of Atlanta, and Harold Ford, Sr. in Memphis. (Mickey Leland was elected to the House and followed Barbara Jordan.) Ford represented the eight and later ninth district of Tennessee. The ninth district is the one that republicans are redistricting or cracking.
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Memphian here. The metro area is now dividing amongst 3 Congressional Districts. How Sway?
 
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