Clarence Thomas Criticizes Brown V. Board Of Education Decision While Ruling In Racial Gerrymandering Case, Black Twitter Calls Him ‘Uncle Ruckus’

Thomas criticizes “extravagant uses of judicial power” Thomas’ latest controversial opinion came as part of a ruling in which the Supreme Court’s conservative majority sided with Republican legislators in South Carolina who redrew the state’s congressional district lines to benefit white Republican voters. As Slate explained, Thomas went a step further, writing a concurring opinion […]

NC Supreme Court Rolls Back Voting Rights: Voter ID Reinstated, People With Felonies Can’t Vote And Partisan Gerrymandering Is Back

Finally, one of Friday’s rulings upheld a requirement that effectively bars people with felony convictions from voting in North Carolina until all aspects of their sentences, including fines and fees, have been fulfilled. This requirement, which impacts more than 50,000 people in the state, had been called racist and exclusionary in the past due to […]

Republicans Split a Black College in Half in Extreme North Carolina Gerrymandering | NowThis

Republicans split a Black college in half to win elections in this state — but this type of gerrymandering isn’t anything new for the GOP. » Subscribe to NowThis: http://go.nowth.is/News_Subscribe Black students at HBCU North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University (North Carolina A&T State University) are calling out Republicans’ aggressive gerrymandering that split their […]