A Louisiana congressional map with two majority-Black districts will be used in 2024. The SCOTUS conservatives, however, used reasoning urged by the state's GOP leaders.
You can very easily draw a clean map with two Black majority districts in Louisiana. The state didn't want to do that, because they like the Republican representative from that part of the state better than the one whose district they eliminated instead. So they drew an uglier gerrymander to achieve the result.
"important as part of a need for the liberal justices continually to lay out their vision for approaching this moment"
Yes. I think they should do this more often. Justice Jackson thus far has been skillful at making her opinion known, often with pithy opinions.
This dispute has many twists and turns, including a governor and secretary of state both named "Landry" if not related (h/t Amy Howe). It's helpful when reporters walk us thru it.
Thank you as always, 🙏 counselor, you make the hardest legal issues so clear that anyone can understand or atleast grasp. Interestingly the more you educate about the American laws, it's becoming Crystal clear who the laws were meant to protect and why so much fighting to maintain the status quo.
You can very easily draw a clean map with two Black majority districts in Louisiana. The state didn't want to do that, because they like the Republican representative from that part of the state better than the one whose district they eliminated instead. So they drew an uglier gerrymander to achieve the result.
"important as part of a need for the liberal justices continually to lay out their vision for approaching this moment"
Yes. I think they should do this more often. Justice Jackson thus far has been skillful at making her opinion known, often with pithy opinions.
This dispute has many twists and turns, including a governor and secretary of state both named "Landry" if not related (h/t Amy Howe). It's helpful when reporters walk us thru it.
Thank you as always, 🙏 counselor, you make the hardest legal issues so clear that anyone can understand or atleast grasp. Interestingly the more you educate about the American laws, it's becoming Crystal clear who the laws were meant to protect and why so much fighting to maintain the status quo.
Thank you so much Chris. This decision and liberals dissent was hard to understand.
Read earlier news reports of the stay, but didn’t understand why the 3 liberal judges dissented. Now I do. Thank you Chris!
Thank you for explaining this ruling so well.
This is so helpful. Thank you , Chris.
Thank you Chris. This clears the issue for me. I really appreciate Justice Jackson
and her footnotes.
So much more helpful than some of the reflexive responses we saw on this. Of the "to good to be true" variety. Greatly appreciated.