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2023-06-12 Home Front: Politix
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Justice Thomas Dissents on Redistricting Case
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[Epoch Times] Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas issued a lengthy, critical dissent in the high court’s ruling that struck down Alabama’s electoral map for congressional elections.
 In a 5—4 ruling (pdf) last week, the court found that a map drafted by state Republican lawmakers violated the provisions of the federal Voting Rights Act.
Writing in his dissent, Thomas argued that the Supreme Court’s ruling that a section of the 1965 Voting Rights Act that bans gerrymandering based on race is "nothing more than a racial entitlement to roughly proportional control of elective offices—limited only by feasibility—wherever different racial groups consistently prefer different candidates."
He added, the Voting Rights Act doesn’t mandate that Alabama "intentionally redraw its longstanding congressional districts so that black voters can control a number of seats roughly proportional to the black share of the State’s population."
Ironic the court chose Thomas to express this dissenting point of view.
"At the outset, I would resolve these cases in a way that would not require the Federal Judiciary to decide the correct racial apportionment of Alabama’s congressional seats," Thomas further stated.
"The majority goes to great lengths ... to fossilize all of the worst aspects of our long-deplorable vote-dilution jurisprudence," Thomas also wrote, adding that "it virtually ignores Alabama’s primary argument—that, whatever the benchmark is, it must be race neutral—choosing, instead, to quixotically joust with an imaginary adversary."
The majority opinion is presented at the link. 
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