La Corte Suprema smantellerà il Voting Rights Act e indebolirà il potere elettorale degli afroamericani?
Il caso riguarda i sei distretti congressuali della Louisiana, due dei quali sono a maggioranza nera, approssimativamente in proporzione alla popolazione nera dello stato.
Voting Rights Act: SCOTUS Poised to Gut Law & Weaken Electoral Power of Black Americans
The Supreme Court appears ready to strike down Section 2 of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, threatening the equal representation of Black voters, and potentially greenlighting Republican gerrymandering ahead of the 2026 midterm election. The case concerns Louisiana’s six congressional districts, two of which are majority-Black, in approximate proportion to the Black population of the state. A previous map that gave Black voters only one district in which they were a majority was ruled to have
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