The Conversation Uses Crypto-Normalization Tactic to Equate Voter ID Laws with Violations of Voters’ Rights
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Two recent Supreme Court rulings on congressional redistricting will have starkly different consequences for Black voters in the 2024 election.
One ruling boosted Black voting power in Louisiana, while another decision upheld a South Carolina congressional map that the lower court had declared “illegal racial gerrymandering.”
Despite these seemingly contradictory outcomes, there is a through line.
In both cases, the justices gave partisan state legislatures more power to craft congressional districts and overruled the lower federal courts that had ordered state legislatures to draw new maps.
