Supreme Court Blocks Racially Segregated Gerrymandering

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

67% : "In the States where that law continues to matter -- the States still marked by residential segregation and racially polarized voting -- minority voters can now be cracked out of the electoral process.
57% : " The ruling largely eliminates majority-minority districts, which Democrats favor because blacks vote so heavily Democrat -- not because segregating blacks into their own, separate but equal districts actually remedies any sort of discrimination.
54% : "The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race," said Chief Justice John Roberts shortly after joining the Supreme Court in 2005.
51% : Instead, "Lower courts have sometimes applied this Court's §2 precedents in a way that forces States to engage in the very race-based discrimination that the Constitution forbids.

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