New Jersey governor is down to join redistricting wars, following Supreme Court gutting of Voting Rights Act
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New Jersey governor is down to join redistricting wars, following Supreme Court gutting of Voting Rights Act
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SS “Several Democratic states are currently mulling how to pull off mid-decade redistrictings given that Republican states have announced plans to take advantage of the recent Louisiana v Callais ruling to eliminate Democratic seats.”
>Red states such as Louisiana, Florida, Alabama, Tennessee and possibly South Carolina are now moving to get rid of those districts – even though some of them only have one, single minority district to begin with. Trump is pushing red states to do this in hopes of increasing a Republican advantage in Congress to carry out his agenda.
>However, for New Jersey to “counter-balance” this, the complications rest beyond just constitutional limitations. Democratic leaders in the state fear that redrawing districts could inadvertently decrease and dilute minority voting power by splitting up those voters, especially if added across Republican districts.
>As Fairleigh Dickinson University law professor Dan Cassino told the New Jersey Monitor: “This becomes an intramural fight between Democrats.”
>“In other states where there’s less of an issue of minority representation, it’s not as big an issue,” said Cassino. “If you’re a whiter Democratic state, it’s not as big an issue. In New Jersey, **this would be Democrat-on-Democrat violence.”**
Please help us get rid of Gottheimer by making us deeper blue, sincerely NJ-5