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High Court Limits Voting Rights Act; Dismisses Cases Over Gun Makers' Liability
ACSBlog: The Blog of the American Constitution Society — ... where the minority population is less than 50 percent of the total population. The Associated Press reported that the decision in Bartlett v. Strickland “could make it harder for southern Democrats to draw friendly boundaries after the 2010 Census.” SCOTUSblog’s Lyle Denniston noted that Kennedy’s “plurality opinion did say that, if state legislatures wished to create a district when a minority group would have less than 50 percent majority, federal law does not forbid that. Still Kennedy went on, the Court was not saying ...

Supreme Court Limits Creation of Minority Districts
Swing State Project — ... Bartlett v. Strickland stems from a 2007 North Carolina Supreme Court decision, where the NC court struck down a district that was 39% African-American, created with the intention of electing an African-American, on the grounds that the district violated state law by unnecessarily crossing county lines. Civil rights groups appealed, saying that such coalition districts help to reduce racial polarization by requiring minority candidates to receive at least some backing from white voters. ...

SUPREME COURT RULES AGAINST MINORITY DISTRICTS: “Dividing 5-4, the Supreme Court ruled on Monday th…
Instapundit — ... SUPREME COURT RULES AGAINST MINORITY DISTRICTS: “Dividing 5-4, the Supreme Court ruled on Monday that federal voting rights law does not require the creation of a new legislative district when that would include a racial minority group that has less than 50 percent of the population, as a remedy when minority voters’ rights have been diluted.” More ...

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SCOTUS Limits Voting Rights Act
Daily Kos — ... Bartlett v. Strickland stems from a 2007 North Carolina Supreme Court decision, where the NC court struck down a district that was 39% African-American, created with the intention of electing an African-American, on the grounds that the district violated state law by unnecessarily crossing county lines. Civil rights groups appealed, saying that such coalition districts help to reduce racial polarization by requiring minority candidates to receive at least some backing from white voters. ...