Episode 534: Analysis of the U.S. Supreme Court’s South Carolina Gerrymandering Decision Finds Disturbing Guidance for Lower Courts
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The American Democracy Minute Radio Report & Podcast for June 3, 2024
Analysis of the U.S. Supreme Court’s South Carolina Gerrymandering Decision Finds Disturbing Guidance for Lower Courts
We reported last week on U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito’s opinion in a South Carolina case, finding no racial gerrymandering when 30,000 Black voters were moved to dilute Black voting power in the state’s 1st Congressional district. Scholars found even more voting rights damage in the fine print.
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Today’s Links
Articles & Resources:
NPR - Supreme Court ruling makes it harder to bring racial gerrymandering claims
Prof. Rick Hasen, Election Law Blog - Breaking and Analysis: Justice Alito for Republican Justices, over the Dissent of Democratic Justices, Rewrites Racial Gerrymandering Standards to Help White Republican States
Prof. Brandon J. Johnson, Election Law Blog - Brandon Johnson: “There’s ‘Clear Error’ in the Supreme Court’s New Racial Gerrymandering Decision
Michael Li, Brennan Center for Justice via MSNBC - This Supreme Court ruling is a ‘get-out-of-jail’ card for racial discrimination
Post and Courier - (Opinion) Commentary: 'Good faith'? Not in the SC Legislature and not on the US Supreme Court
Groups Taking Action:
NAACP Legal Defense Fund, ACLU, Constitutional Accountability Center, Campaign Legal Center, League of Women Vote
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