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John Roberts and the Supreme Court handed Trump a lifeline ahead of the midterm elections

The Independent·Eric Garcia·28 days ago
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T he battle for the Voting Rights Act may now be over but the battle over redistricting rages on. Last week, the Supreme Court ruled on Louisiana v. Callais , which not only requires Louisiana to redraw its congressional maps , but essentially killed Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, the 1965 law that prohibited voting practices or procedures that discriminated based on race. This also includes the process of drawing congressional maps. Unsurprisingly, President Donald Trump immediately called on Republican states to take advantage of the ruling. “We should demand that State Legislatures do what the Supreme Court says must be done,” he said. “That is more important than administrative convenience. The byproduct is that the Republicans will receive more than 20 House Seats in the upcoming Midterms!” But the next step of the redistricting wars was already underway.…

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