Vincent Oshana
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So this is the tweet that he puts up there.
It says, today's Supreme Court decision effectively guts a key pillar of the Voting Rights Act freeing a state legislator
to gerrymander legislative district to systematically dilute and weaken the voting power of racial minorities so long as they do it under the guise of partisanship rather than explicit racial bias.
And it serves as just one more example of how the majority of the Supreme Court seems intent on abandoning its role in ensuring equal participation in our democracy.
Anyways, the good news is that we can come back and pa-pa-pa-pa-pa by winning elections, by winning midterms.
So he's kind of using this as that.
Why is this such a big deal?
If you go to the actual article, Rob, and show what it did on the redistricting side, which is absolutely massive, absolutely massive.
Supreme Court ruled for it.
So what do you mean Supreme Court ruled for it?
Supreme Court ruled for it, six to three.
And this Supreme Court that ruled for it allows, if this goes through, okay,
6-3, Louisiana's 2024 mid-decade redistricting that produced a serpentine district represented by this, calling it an illegal racial gerrymandering, while Obama argued the decision weakened a Voting Rights Act.
Do you have that image, Rob, of shows all the states of what the plus minus is?
You know the one that we showed?
A couple days ago.
The Northeast?
Oh, my God.
No, not the Northeast.
The Southeast, I think, is the one.