Supreme Court backs landmark voting rights law, strikes down Alabama congressional mapThe justices threw out Republican-drawn congressional districts that a lower court said discriminated against Black voters.https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/supreme-court-strikes-alabama-congressional-map-voting-rights-dispute-rcna64476Let's be honest, the only reason that Republicans have a tiny 9 seat majority in the House of Representatives is because of unconstitutional congressional district maps that discriminate against black voters. Texas, Ohio, and Florida drew up these unconstitutional maps in their states specifically for 2022 midterm election which helped Republicans gain a handful of seats.
Republicans now tried to discriminate against black voters (again) in Alabama trying to gain more seats for 2024, and surprisingly the right wing Supreme Court struck the unconstitutional Republican map down. This Supreme Court decision changes everything for 2024 and the radical right is foaming at the mouth over it. Republicans can no longer draw up these unconstitutional district maps based on race to help the Republican party gain House seats they don't deserve.
Today’s surprise Supreme Court ruling has shifted a bunch of House races in the Democrats’ direction. Once these races heat up Democrats are gonna go put in the work and win every House race in the toss up column, and take the House majority.
We’re not accustomed to having competitive House races in states like Alabama or Louisiana. Black voters are all gerrymandered into one district, and the Republicans win all the rest easily. But as of today that changes. There will be some actual toss up races in these states.
Cook Political Report has now shifted four House races in Alabama and Louisiana from “Solid Republican” to “Toss Up” based on how they’re expected to be redrawn. That’s how big this is. Democrats can now flip four previously unwinnable seats in two states alone, if they put in the work.
This will also open up opportunities for the Democrats in other racially gerrymandered states in the south.
This does not mean that EVERY House district is now magically in play.
Most House districts are legitimately never in play, because they're in a liberal or conservative region.
This ruling only puts districts into contention that were *artificially* taken out of contention.
But most southern states have long artificially discriminated against African American regions out of proper House representation. This ruling fixes that and will put those *specific* seats in play.
Not every Republican seat in Alabama and southern states will now be up for grabs. Just a few specific ones.
This is Cook's preliminary attempt at assessing the impact of today's ruling:
Dave Wasserman @RedistrictNew @CookPolitical: in the wake of the SCOTUS Alabama decision, we're shifting five House ratings in Democrats' direction. It's very likely two formerly Solid R seats will end up in Solid D.https://cookpolitical.com/analysis/house/redistricting/surprise-scotus-alabama-ruling-huge-win-democrats-civil-rights-groups
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