Tag: partisan gerrymandering

Federal Judges Rule Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ ‘Race-Neutral’ Congressional Map Is Constitutional

NewsOne Featured Video Source: brichuas / Getty In today’s episode of This Is Why Critical Race Theory Exists, three federal judges ruled Wednesday that plaintiffs have not proven that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and the Florida Legislature did not redistrict the state’s congressional map for a “racially discriminatory purpose,” despite DeSantis all but admitting it […]

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Gerrymandering: Will the Court Permit Discrimination for Partisan Gain?

Given Cooper, South Carolina’s congressional map seems a straightforward racial gerrymander. The case concerns two districts: the First, an increasingly competitive, white-majority coastal seat anchored in Charleston, and the Sixth, a neighboring inland Black-majority which Democratic Representative Jim Clyburn has long represented. According to the census, the Charleston-centered First District was overpopulated by almost exactly […]

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