The Supreme Court is reviewing a law that helps black politicians get elected
In recent months a new battle over voting rules has begun. Republican legislators in 47 states have proposed reforms changing when and how people vote, citing electoral security. Democrats fear these bills will make voting harder for non-whites.
Such warnings may be justified in some cases. However, studies of voting requirements such as a photohave not found that they provide big partisan advantages. Instead, the redrawing of Congressional districts is likely to have a bigger impact. Both parties gerrymander . However, Republicans run more state governments, and a greater share of Democratic states entrust redistricting to nonpartisan panels. This means Republicans could gerrymander up to 187 House seats for 2022 compared with 75 for Democrats.
Beyond the constitutional rule that laws protect everyone equally, federal law places just two limits on gerrymandering. First, districts must have similar numbers of people. Next, in 1986 the Supreme Court applied theto ban states from diluting non-whites’ impact in places where they vote as a bloc. If mapmakers split up areas with lots of minorities—who tend to support Democrats, and often elect candidates of their own race—into too many districts, they risk having such lines redrawn..
had little effect. Most of the Republican gains came from redistricting suburbs that contain lots of college-educated whites, not from “cracking” minority areas. However, without the, Alabama, Louisiana and Mississippi went from one Democrat each to all-Republican slates. In total, theThis analysis shows that the Supreme Court could help Republicans win a few seats by curtailing the.
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