IN EPOCHAL RULING, SUPREME COURT HOLDS, 6-3, THAT RACIAL GERRYMANDERS ARE UNCONSTITUTIONAL -- MUCH LESS REQUIRED BY THE CONSTITUTION

I don't know if the southern states affected like this can impose an emergency redistricting double-quick for the midterms, but some analysts believe that this ruling will eventually flip 19 Democrat seats to Republican.

Huge. Just huge.

The Supreme Court just handed down one of the most consequential redistricting decisions in a generation -- and Democrats are not going to like it one bit.

In a 6-3 ruling in Louisiana v. Callais, the majority held that Louisiana's congressional map -- redrawn to include a second majority-black district -- constitutes an unconstitutional racial gerrymander under the Fifteenth Amendment. The Court stopped short of striking down Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act entirely, but it dramatically narrowed the ways in which states may use race when drawing congressional maps.

Zachary Donnini @ZacharyDonnini

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Kagan seems to be pretty damn sure that Section 2 is gutted in her dissent:

"The new Callais requirements will effectively insulate any practice, including any districting scheme, said by a State to have any race-neutral justification. That justification can sound in traditional redistricting criteria, or else can sound in politics and partisanship. As to the latter, the State need do nothing more than announce a partisan gerrymander."

Full decision here.

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