Gerrymandering Your Vote – Where to Draw the Line – Based upon Partisan & Racial Profiles to Create District Lines. All of this to dilute the vote of a minority or nonincumbent party to disenfranchise voters. Recent US Supreme Court ruling in the case of S. Carolina vs NAACP exemplifies that it is okay to disenfranchise for partisan purposes, as long as the main purpose is not based upon race. A cloaked inquiry by the US Supreme Court now allows states to gerrymander while taking race into account, as long as a state legislature’s primary purpose for redistricting – doesn’t do so for the predominant purpose of excluding or limiting black votes.
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June 19, 2018 – The US Supreme Court just announced their decision in two high-profile, highly-charged voter redistricting cases, Gill v. Whitford and Benisek v. Lamone. To the amazement of many pundits, the Court virtually dismissed them both! So what does this all mean? Yesterday, the Supreme Court of the…
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Guest: Dr. Daniel Breen, J.D., PhD,
Professor Breen is a Lecturer of Legal Studies at Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts. He holds a J.D. in Law from the University of Georgia, and a Ph.D. in American History from Boston College.
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January 24, 2018-Recently, both the US Supreme Court and state courts have been taking up the highly controversial and highly politicized issue of political gerrymandering–that is the artificial manipulation of voting districts by those in state legislatures to favor the party in power–their own. It’s accomplished by these legislatures creating…
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