💬 The Absolute Cheek of It: When Republicans Ask the Supreme Court to Let Them Keep Their Racial Gerrymander
The Absolute Cheek of It: When Republicans Ask the Supreme Court to Let Them Keep Their Racial Gerrymander Right, let’s have a proper chat about something that’s absolutely doing my nut in. Alabama Republicans have gone to the Supreme Court asking them to overturn a lower court ruling that found their congressional map was a “stark racial gerrymander.” And I’m not talking about your nan’s slightly wonky flower beds—I’m talking about deliberately carving up voting districts to suppress Black voters. It’s the sort of thing that makes you wonder if we’ve collectively decided that the Voting Rights Act of 1965 was just a lovely suggestion, like “please use a coaster.” ...