{"id":172407,"date":"2025-08-05T09:05:47","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T13:05:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=172407"},"modified":"2025-08-03T21:18:47","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T01:18:47","slug":"supreme-court-to-rule-on-race-conscious-redistricting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=172407","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court to rule on race-conscious redistricting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Pink-cotton-candy-over-city-20240310-B.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-154295\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Pink-cotton-candy-over-city-20240310-B-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Pink-cotton-candy-over-city-20240310-B-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Pink-cotton-candy-over-city-20240310-B-333x333.jpg 333w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Pink-cotton-candy-over-city-20240310-B-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Pink-cotton-candy-over-city-20240310-B-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Pink-cotton-candy-over-city-20240310-B.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Louisiana recently conducted redistricting in response to a federal court order against the previous voting district map. It was deemed unconstitutional. Redistricting was conducted resulting in Blacks having another district. However, this new map was challenged as unconstitutional racial gerrymandering. A District Court panel agreed with those who challenged the new voting district. The case is in the hands of the U.S. Supreme Court. The Supreme Court has called on both sides to present their argument based on the parameters that the justices provided.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><b>From The Post Millennial:<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A group of voters who identified themselves as non-black challenged the 2024 map in federal court, arguing it constituted an unconstitutional racial gerrymander. A three-judge district court agreed, but the Supreme Court later paused that ruling, allowing the 2024 map to be used in the election.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, the justices asked the parties involved to file new briefs on whether the &#8220;intentional creation of a second majority-minority congressional district violates the Fourteenth or Fifteenth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution.&#8221; Oral arguments were held in March, but the Court did not issue a decision before its summer recess. In June, it signaled it would revisit the case with additional questions for briefing.<\/p>\n<p>If the Court ultimately rules that race-conscious redistricting is unconstitutional, it could significantly restrict how Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act is applied in future cases. That provision prohibits race-based discrimination in voting laws and has long been used to challenge district lines seen as weakening minority representation.<\/p>\n<p>According to a report by Politico, striking down Louisiana&#8217;s current map could lead to Republicans regaining one of the state&#8217;s congressional seats. Currently, both majority-black districts are represented by Democrats, while the remaining four are held by Republicans.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Additional Reading:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Cunningham, H. (2025, August 2). Supreme Court to consider ban on race-based congressional redistricting to narrow Voting Rights Act. <em>The Post Millennial<\/em>. <a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/supreme-court-to-consider-ban-on-race-based-congressional-redistricting-to-narrow-voting-rights-act\">Link<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Louisiana recently conducted redistricting in response to a federal court order against the previous voting district &hellip; <a title=\"Supreme Court to rule on race-conscious redistricting\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=172407\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Supreme Court to rule on race-conscious redistricting<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-172407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-society"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=172407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172407\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=172407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=172407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=172407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}