Racial-Discrimination

North Carolina GOP Advances Mid-Decade Redistricting to Eliminate Black Representative

| Importance: 8/10

North Carolina Republicans advanced mid-decade congressional redistricting explicitly designed to eliminate the seat of Black Democratic Representative Don Davis and secure another House seat for the GOP. State Senator Ralph Hise openly acknowledged the partisan motivation, making no attempt to …

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Allen v. Milligan reaffirms Voting Rights Act §2; orders additional majority-Black district in Alabama

| Importance: 9/10

The Supreme Court held that Alabama’s congressional map likely violated §2 of the Voting Rights Act and ordered a remedy adding a second majority-Black district. The ruling preserved the Thornburg v. Gingles framework for vote-dilution claims, affecting redistricting nationally.

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Courts Strike Down North Carolina Racial Gerrymandering, Legislature Redraws With Explicit Partisan Intent

| Importance: 8/10

Federal courts strike down North Carolina’s 2011 legislative redistricting as unconstitutional racial gerrymandering, finding that Republican lawmakers illegally packed African American voters into 28 districts. In response, the Republican-controlled legislature redraws the maps with explicit …

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Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp Purges 560,000 Voters in Single Day Using "Exact Match" System

| Importance: 9/10

On a single day in late July 2017, Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp’s office removes 560,000 Georgians—8% of the state’s registered voters—from the voter rolls in what may be the largest mass purge in U.S. history. The purge uses Georgia’s aggressive “use it or lose …

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Federal Court Rules Texas Voter ID Law Intentionally Discriminatory Against Minorities

| Importance: 8/10

A federal judge rules that Texas’s voter ID law, widely considered the strictest in the nation, was intentionally designed to discriminate against Black and Latino voters. The ruling finds “a pattern of conduct unexplainable on grounds other than the race factor” and marks the …

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Appeals Court Strikes Down North Carolina Voter ID Law With "Surgical Precision" Ruling

| Importance: 9/10

The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals strikes down North Carolina’s comprehensive voter suppression law (HB 589) in a scathing ruling that finds the legislature “target[ed] African Americans with almost surgical precision.” Judge Diana Gribbon Motz’s opinion exposes how North …

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North Carolina Passes "Monster" Voter Suppression Law Hours After Shelby County Decision

| Importance: 9/10

Within hours of the Supreme Court’s Shelby County v. Holder decision gutting the Voting Rights Act, North Carolina Republicans introduce and rapidly pass House Bill 589, one of the most comprehensive voter suppression laws in the nation. The law imposes strict voter ID requirements, eliminates …

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Federal Court Rules Texas 2011 Redistricting Intentionally Discriminated Against Latino Voters

| Importance: 8/10

A federal court rules that the Texas Legislature’s 2011 redistricting plan for congressional districts discriminated against Latino voters in violation of the federal Voting Rights Act and the U.S. Constitution. The decision finds that Texas deliberately carved up Latino communities and …

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North Carolina Republicans Begin Aggressive Racial Gerrymandering

| Importance: 8/10

Following their historic gains in the 2010 elections, North Carolina Republicans gain control of the General Assembly for the first time in over a century and immediately implement the “Rucho-Lewis plan”—an aggressive redistricting scheme that packs African American voters into …

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Florida Disenfranchises 1.4 Million Citizens Through Felony Voting Bans, Highest Rate in Nation

| Importance: 8/10

By 2000, Florida disenfranchises an estimated 1.4 million citizens who have felony convictions—nearly a quarter of all disenfranchised people with felony records in the entire United States. Florida’s lifetime voting ban for people with felony convictions, rooted in post-Civil War efforts to …

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