{"id":10955,"date":"2023-06-16T03:30:20","date_gmt":"2023-06-16T03:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=10955"},"modified":"2023-06-16T03:30:20","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T03:30:20","slug":"why-two-supreme-court-conservatives-just-saved-the-voting-rights-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=10955","title":{"rendered":"Why Two Supreme Court Conservatives Just Saved The Voting Rights Act"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\n&#8220;Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Brett Kavanaugh&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.supremecourt.gov\/opinions\/22pdf\/21-1086_1co6.pdf\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">joined the court\u2019s three liberal justices<\/a>, ruling that Alabama\u2019s congressional map likely violates Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, which prohibits racially discriminatory voting practices or procedures. Last year, a panel of three federal judges&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/01\/24\/us\/politics\/alabama-congressional-map-redistricting.html\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">threw out Alabama\u2019s map<\/a>, which was drawn by the Republican-controlled state legislature in 2021 with only one majority-Black district out of seven, because it was possible to draw a second majority-Black seat in a state with a population that is more than one-quarter Black. Now, Alabama will have to redraw its map to include a second predominantly Black district.&#8221;<br><a href=\"https:\/\/fivethirtyeight.com\/features\/roberts-kavanaugh-voting-rights-act-alabama\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/fivethirtyeight.com\/features\/roberts-kavanaugh-voting-rights-act-alabama\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Brett Kavanaugh joined the court\u2019s three liberal justices, ruling that Alabama\u2019s congressional map likely violates Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, which prohibits racially discriminatory voting practices or procedures. Last year, a panel of three federal judges threw out Alabama\u2019s map, which was drawn by the Republican-controlled state legislature in 2021 with only one majority-Black district out of seven, because it was possible to draw a second majority-Black seat in a state with a population that is more than one-quarter Black. Now, Alabama will have to redraw its map to include a second predominantly Black district.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1018,198,1052,528,479,1891],"class_list":["post-10955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-congressional-districts","tag-elections","tag-redistricting","tag-supreme-court","tag-voting","tag-voting-rights-act"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10955"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10955\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10956,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10955\/revisions\/10956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}