With its recent Milligan decision as precedent, it will be more difficult for right-wing courts to dismantle voting rights, Jordan_S_Rubin writes.
from Louisiana — with the upshot being that a fairer congressional map may be used in Louisiana ahead of the 2024 elections. More broadly, the Milligan case puts Democrats in a better position to win the House of Representatives.
In Milligan, a bare majority of the Supreme Court upheld a crucial part of the Voting Rights Act, the landmark civil rights law that the court had previously gutted another part of in. Given the court’s opposition to voting rights over the years, including in Shelby County, a similar ruling was expected in the Alabama case.
But in a 5-4 vote, the court said the Alabama map in question diluted Black voting power. The ruling paved the way for fairer maps not only in Alabama but in other states, such as Louisiana — specifically, it paved the way for adding a second “majority-minority" district, creating the possibility of more equal representation relative to the state’s population.
To be sure, the Supreme Court already did damage on this front, by allowing these apparently illegal maps in the 2022 midterms, in which Republicans barely won the House, before its surprise ruling in Milligan. And further litigation will proceed in the Louisiana case at the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, the most right-wing appeals court in the country. So we will see how the 5th Circuit handles the case going forward.
But with Milligan as precedent, it will be more difficult for right-wing courts to dismantle voting rights.
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