Redistricting Tests News Today

Supreme court last term s that theres very little opportunity, decreasing opportunity for people who are discriminated against as the maps are redrawn to challenge them in courts. the biggest loss here is the loss of preclearance which requires states and jurisdictions with the history of discrimination to submit new proposals whether they were voting laws or other sorts of restrictions to the justice department for pre-clearance before they were enacted and this is a significant -- >> this play...

State has some justification for it, then that passes muster under the voting rights act so this was the first time the supreme court has ever applied the voting rights act or whats left of it to voting law changes and the past its always been used to measure redistricting tests, you know, when you redraw the lines for congressional or state legislative boundaries. thats the test, he says, he says in the opinion were not announcing a test but heres guideposts so its sort of the next best thing t...