Tag: Allen v. Milligan

Majority-Minority Voting Districts Give Minority Voters a Fair Chance to Elect Proper Representation. The Equal Protection Clause is Now Being Used to Try to End Them

There are 141 majority-minority congressional voting districts in the U.S., out of 435.  A new conservative legal tactic has emerged, arguing such districts harm  White Americans, and citingthe Equal Protection Clause, originally passed to end state discrimination against Black Americans.

Federal Judge Approves Map with Additional Majority-Minority District in Georgia, But Also Hands Georgia Legislature a Gerrymandering Victory

A Georgia racial gerrymandering case was finalized December 28th, approving a new map which included another majority-minority Congressional district.  The map puts Georgia in compliance with the Voting Rights Act Section 2.  But the Georgia legislature further gerrymandered other districts, including the district of a current Black congresswoman.