By Bob Walsh
SCOTUS has something interesting going on today. (Not
that they don't usually.) They are looking at the constitutionality of
engineering voting districts largely along racial lines. The problem
with the concept is that if you can make a district to preserve a
racially focused voting block you can also make a district or districts
in order to break up and dilute a racially focused voting block.
Last
year SCOTUS rolled this back onto the Circuit Court of Appeals to have
another look at it. They COULD punt again, but the court watchers say
they probably won't.
If
memory serves the current law specifically allows for racially focused
voting districts in order to preserve those voting blocks, but not in
order to break up those blocks.
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