The United States Supreme Court is about to consider a major challenge that could reshape the way in which the voting cards are drawn, which potentially gives Republicans a significant advantage in the next elections.
The judges agreed on Friday to extend a case of Louisiana and weigh arguments as to whether the 1965 voting rights law still justifies the creation of districts specially designed to elect black or Hispanic representatives. The case will examine whether racial considerations should play a role in restarting electoral cards.
The United States Supreme Court is represented on January 9, 2017 in Washington, DC. (Photo credit: Zach Gibson / AFP via Getty Images)
A decision that limits the application of the law on voting rights could have effects on congress and local legislative districts across the country, especially in the south. A decision that limits the breed -based distribution could benefit the GOP, the caregiver to recover the only seat she lost in Alabama and Louisiana because of the redistribution ordered by the court in the last electoral cycle. It could also open the door to the Republicans to collect additional seats in other southern states where the district lines have been traced by thinking of racial considerations.
Currently, the American house includes 11 mainly black districts and 31 mainly-hispanic districts, according to a Bloomberg News analysis of 2022 data. The Republicans extended their control of the Senate in the last elections, winning 53 seats compared to Democrats 45, with two independents in Caucus with the latter. The Republicans are currently holding a majority of eight places in the House, a margin which includes vacant posts created by the recent death of three Democratic legislators. (Related: “ We are going to challenge the story ”: Mike Johnson makes daring predictions on the future of the GOP)
The Supreme Court affair takes place in the midst of renewed redistribution battles in the South, including a brewing confrontation in Texas. The Democrats of Texas weigh once again to flee the State to block a redistribution thrust led by the GOP before the mid-term of 2026, reflecting their dramatic uprooting in 2003. That year, more than 50 Democratic legislators fled the State to prevent a quorum, but the Republicans finally pushed through a new map which helped them to collect five house seats 2004.
Texas Republican Governor Greg Abbott has already signed the new cards after the 2020 census, which has shaped the 2022 elections. Democrats currently control only 12 of the 38 seats in the Texas Congress, which means that other potentially decisive GOP card changes to maintain or widen the thin majority of the party.
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