Millions of Americans cast their votes in the midterm elections, but it's the Supreme Court who may have decided the House.
Millions of Americans cast their votes in the midterm elections, but the Supreme Court may have been the one to actually determine control of the House of Representatives, which. It’s important to understand how we got here. Specifically, the fact that one major Supreme Court case and two shadow docket orders almost certainly allowed the Republican Party to gerrymander its way into this victory.
Over the past year, federal judges in three different states have found that congressional district maps likely violate the Voting Rights Act. These maps amounted to illegal racial gerrymanders which diluted the voting rights of minority voters. The solution for this problem is to replace the illegal legislative district lines with new lines, and in each case to draw an additional majority-minority district.
And finally, in Louisiana, a district court judge found a likely violation of the Voting Rights Act and ordered that the state’s House legislative district maps be redrawn to include another majority-minority district. Before this could happen,, allowing the likely illegal district lines to be used for the midterm elections while the court considered the case out of Alabama which raises similar legal questions.
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