Oral arguments in a case that might significantly alter the political politics of the American South were heard by the Supreme Court on Wednesday. The Voting Rights Act, which was first created to safeguard Black Americans’ electoral authority against state-sanctioned discrimination, was challenged in court on one of its main tenets.
Even though the session was only supposed to last an hour, it ended up lasting more than twice that amount of time as the nine justices asked the case’s attorneys several questions.
According to some estimates, redrawing congressional districts throughout the southern states might result in the transfer of over a dozen Democratic seats to Republican ones if the challenge is successful.
Such a decision might provide President Donald Trump’s party a significant edge in holding onto their majority in the next 2018 legislative elections, especially considering the current close political split in the US House of Representatives. Rick Hansen, a law professor at UCLA, claims that it would be a “earthquake in the American political system” and overturn decades of judicial precedent.
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