“Everyone’s looking at this decision and I think that it will have a ripple effect, a positive ripple effect. “I’m so happy that the justices saw the truth in the fact that that represents voter dilution and it’s black voter dilution,” Sewell said on CNN’s “News Central” Thursday. Terri Sewell, the state’s first Black woman elected to Congress, said the Supreme Court’s decision will lead to more “equitable maps” in Alabama. Political impact of court’s rulings in 2022 electionsĪlabama’s Democratic Rep. “A district is not equally open, in other words, when minority voters face – unlike their majority peers – bloc voting along racial lines, arising against the backdrop of substantial racial discrimination within the State, that renders a minority vote unequal to a vote by a nonminority voter. Alabama’s argument “runs headlong into our precedent.” “It simply holds that a faithful application of our precedents and a fair reading of the record before us do not bear them out here,” Roberts said. Roberts wrote Thursday that Section 2 “may impermissibly elevate race in the allocation of political power within the States is, of course, not new,” but he said the opinion “does not diminish or disregard these concerns” he said. It bars voting rules that result in a denial or abridgment of the right to vote on account of racial discrimination. In recent years, Section 2 has been instrumental in paving the way for minority voters to more fully participate in the political process, especially as they combat maps that appear to be neutral but actually entrench racial polarization.
The fact that Roberts penned the decision is a surprise given that 10 years ago, the chief justice effectively gutted a separate section of the Voting Rights Act that required states with a history of discrimination to obtain federal approval before changing election laws. “We are content to reject Alabama’s invitation to change existing law,” Roberts said. Justice Brett Kavanaugh agreed with the key parts of the holding, providing the fifth vote.
Supporters of voting rights had feared that the court was going to make it harder for minorities to challenge maps under Section 2 of the historic Voting Rights Act.Ĭhief Justice John Roberts penned the opinion for a 5-4 majority, siding with the court’s three liberals. Supreme Court sides with Jack Daniel's in trademark dispute involving a poop-themed dog toy
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