#congressional districts

[mapsontheweb]

Current US congressional districts colored to uphold the four color theorem

#maps #us #congressional districts

[aunti-christ-ine]

#editorial cartoons #bill bramhall #gerrymandering #gop #congressional districts #republicans #cheating #political cartoon

[dontmeantobepoliticalbut]

Alabama Republicans, under orders of the U.S. Supreme Court to redraw congressional districts to give minority voters a greater voice in elections, rejected calls Monday to craft a second majority-Black district and proposed a map that could test what is required by the judges’ directive.

Lawmakers must adopt a new map by Friday after the high court in June affirmed a three-judge panel’s ruling that Alabama’s existing congressional map — with a single Black district out of seven statewide — likely violated the Voting Rights Act. In a state where more than one in four residents is Black, the lower court panel had ruled in 2022 that Alabama should have another majority-Black congressional district or something “close to it” so Black voters have the opportunity to “elect a representative of their choice.”

Republicans, who have been resistant to creating a certain Democratic district, proposed a map that would increase the percentage of Black voters in the 2nd congressional district from about 30% to nearly 42.5%, wagering that will satisfy the court’s directive.

House Speaker Pro Tempore Chris Pringle, who serves as co-chairman of the state redistricting committee, said the proposal complies with the order to provide a district in which Black voters have the “opportunity to elect the representative of their choice.”

“The goal here, for me, was to provide an opportunity for African-Americans to be elected to Congress in the second congressional district,” Pringle said.

However, the National Redistricting Foundation, one of the groups that backed challenges to the Alabama map, called the proposal “shameful” and said it would be challenged.

“It is clear that Alabama Republicans are not serious about doing their job and passing a compliant map, even in light of a landmark Supreme Court decision,” said Marina Jenkins, executive director of the National Redistricting Foundation.

She called that a pattern seen throughout the state’s history “where a predominately white and Republican legislature has never done the right thing on its own, but rather has had to be forced to do so by a Court.”

The Permanent Legislative Committee on Reapportionment approved the proposal in a 14-6 vote that fell along party lines. The proposal was introduced as legislation Monday afternoon as lawmakers convened a special session to adopt a new map by a Friday deadline set by the three-judge panel. House Speaker Nathaniel Ledbetter said he believes the new district will be a swing district that could elect either a Democratic candidate or a Republican.

“I think that the models will show that it could go either way, probably. I think all the court’s asked for was a fair chance. I certaintly think that map does it. I don’t think there’s any question about that,” Ledbetter said.

Democrats accused Republicans of rushing the process and thwarting the court’s directive.

Sen. Vivian Davis Figures, a Democrat from Mobile, said the court was clear that the state should create a second majority-Black district or something close to it.

“42% is not close to 50. In my opinion 48, 49 is close to 50,” Figures said. She had urged colleagues to adopt a proposal by the plaintiffs in the Supreme Court case that would make the 2nd district 50% Black.

Under the Republican plan, the state would continue to have one majority Black district, which is now represented by Rep. Terri Sewell. The Black voting age population of that district would drop from about 55% to 51.6%

Rep. Chris England, a Democrat from Tuscaloosa, said he also doesn’t think the GOP proposal would satisfy the court’s directive. He said Republican lawmakers pushed through their proposal without a public hearing or producing an analysis of the partisan leanings of the district.

“The map that we adopted, nobody had any input on. There was no public input on it, not subject to a public hearing — and now it’s going to be the map of choice,” England said.

Deuel Ross, a lawyer with the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund who argued the case before the Supreme Court, said they will challenge the proposal if it is enacted by the Alabama Legislature.

“Any plan with a low Black voting age population does not appear to comply with the Court’s instruction,” Ross wrote in an email.

Partisan politics underlies the looming redistricting fight. A higher percentage of Black voters increases the chances that a the seat will switch from GOP to Democratic control.

Pollster Zac McCrary said predicting a district’s partisan leanings depends on a number of metrics, but “getting a district too far below the mid 40s in terms of Black voter composition could certainly open the door for Republicans.”

#us politics #news #the associated press #ap news #2023 #alabama #us supreme court #scotus #republicans #conservatives #redistricting #gerrymandering #congressional districts #congressional maps #Voting Rights Act #Chris Pringle #Alabama Legislature #National Redistricting Foundation #Marina Jenkins #Permanent Legislative Committee on Reapportionment #Nathaniel Ledbetter #Vivian Davis Figures #Terri Sewell #Chris England #Deuel Ross #NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund #Zac McCrary #Allen v. Milligan

[oneequalworldblog]

Florida: Fix Your Fair Voting

Florida has to re-district, and they tried to use that to erase black voters, but a judge threw their efforts out. A judge in Florida has ruled in favor of civil rights groups, deeming a congressional district map supported by Republican Governor Ron DeSantis unconstitutional. The ruling, expected to be appealed, represents a redistricting victory for Democrats in the Southeast and potentially…

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#congressional districts #Florida #gerrymandering #lee mars #racism #ron desantis

[rodspurethoughts]

US Cancer Death Rates Decline, But Disparities Persist: Study

New study by American Cancer Society shows decline in US cancer death rates, but disparities based on race and ethnicity persist. #cancer #healthdisparities

New ACS research led by Dr. Farhad Islami A recent study by the American Cancer Society (ACS) shows a decline in overall cancer death rates in the past 25 years across all congressional districts in the United States. The data revealed that most districts experienced a 20%-45% decline among males and a 10%-40% decline among females. However, disparities in cancer death rates based on race and…

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#American Cancer Society #cancer #congressional districts #Ethnicity #Health Disparities #interventions #mortality rates #race #screening #treatment #United States

[antiadvil]

you know what. fuck it. i'm running for speaker of the US house of representatives. my qualifications are that i'm loud and i have more people who like me than jim jordan

#politics #us politics #speaker of the house #republicans #technically not a joke #you don't need to be in the house to be speaker #everyone who lives in a republican congressional district: #call your representative and tell them to vote for lou from tumblr #i would do a very good job #lou is loud

[dontmean2bepoliticalbut]

#us politics #2022 #2022 midterms #2022 elections #colorado #Colorado district 3 #gop #republicans #conservatives #congressional voting record #voting rights act #chips act #violence against women act #american rescue plan #rep. lauren boebert

[xlntwtch2]

AP News article on 10/26/23...

ATLANTA (AP) — A federal judge ruled Thursday that some of Georgia’s congressional, state Senate and state House districts were drawn in a racially discriminatory manner, ordering the state to draw an additional Black-majority congressional district.

U.S. District Judge Steve Jones, in a 516-page order, also ordered the state to draw two new Black-majority districts in Georgia’s 56-member state Senate and five new Black-majority districts in its 180-member state House.

Jones’ ruling follows an eight-day September trial in which the plaintiffs argued that Black voters are still fighting opposition from white voters and need federal help to get a fair shot, while the state argued court intervention on behalf of Black voters wasn’t needed....

#voting matters - stay aware of changing congressional districts everywhere USA

[glompcat]

Yesterday I debated on sharing screenshots of various news sites when the Dems won the senate and then decided not to since for some reason I could not imagine anyone not knowing already, so since I have been proved wrong since then-

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/12/us/politics/jim-marchant-nevada.html

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/11/13/trump-republicans-rivals-2024/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/11/12/desantis-florida-midterms-2024-trump/

#DeSantis is now anticipated to be the GOP's 2024 star #so you know #they are still a party of nightmare bigots obs #but watching them turn on Trump sure has been something #Fox News has been bashing the guy even #also lol at how the reporting on NY shifting more red keeps neglecting to mention what happened to our congressional map #where our redistricting got handed over in the courts to a grad student from Pennsylvania #who set out to make as many districts in NY state as much of a 50/50 red blue split as possible #and in the process violated the NY state constitution in a MAJOR way #since he split communities of color in a manner where they were no longer in the majority in as many districts as they had been #our constitution says that diluting the vote of margenalized populations like that is not ok #but by that point things were so close to the elections we had to use that map this year #so like.... #yeah NY shifted red in the house #THE MAP LITERALLY WAS DESIGNED TO DO THAT by one (1) person who has never lived in our state

[mapsontheweb]

Florida's 5th congressional district

#maps #congressional districts #florida #gerrymandering

[elijones94]

👊🏾✊🏾 “When you see something that is not right, not fair, not just, you have to speak up. You have to say something; you have to do something.” ~ Congressman John Lewis (1940-2020) 🇺🇸

#John Lewis #Congressman John Lewis #civil rights activist #United States House of Representatives #United States Congress #5th congressional district of Georgia #Civil Rights Movement #the sixties #the sit in movement #Freedom Rides #Freedom Riders #1963 March on Washington #1965 Selma to Montgomery marches #1965 Bloody Sunday #sncc #Martin Luther King Jr #Fisk University #nonviolence #Congress of Racial Equality (Core) #SRC and VEP #March 2013 #John Lewis: Good Trouble #Bobby Kennedy for President #King In The Wilderness #historical caricature #Black History Month

[boylebingo]

i’m a few weeks (months?) late to this so forgive me if someone has made this point already but i’m obsessed with the fact that in the emily in paris universe coronavirus does not and never has existed and yet EVERYONE knows what zoom is

#emily in paris #i had encountered zoom in exactly one place before covid #and it was in organizing calls for text banking campaigns supporting democrats in swing seats running for state offices lmao #like emily girlie did you find zoom by encouraging residents of michigans eighth congressional district to do relational organizing #cuz something tells me youve never heard the phrase vote tripling #anyway point being zoom used to be so niche !! #to know what it was was also know ‘the stance of the democratic candidate in montana’s at-large district on agricultural subsidies’

[fiercestpurpose]

fucking mad about the fundamental mathematical unfairness of the us election system again

#m.txt #in a state where 40% of people are democrats they’ve managed to draw the lines #so that only ONE out of nine congressional districts is represented by a democrat #despite the fact that FORTY PERCENT of people vote democrat

[thedreadpiratejames]

"Republican House candidate Carl Paladino praised Nazi leader Adolf Hitler’s ability to rouse 'the crowds' and declared Hitler 'the kind of leader we need today.' "

"This isn’t Paladino’s first brush with controversy. In 2016, he said in an interview that he would like to see President Barack Obama die from mad cow disease and First Lady Michelle Obama 'return to being a male and let loose in the outback of Zimbabwe where she lives comfortably in a cave with Maxie, the gorilla.' Those comments led to Paladino being removed from the Buffalo School Board."

#new york #NY-23 #NY-23rd congressional district #ny 23rd congressional district #western new york #ithaca ny #jamestown ny #elmira ny

[chuck-glisson]

☆ Joe Kent "Supports" VLADIMIR PUTIN!

☆ Joe Kent is an AMERICAN TRAITOR!

☆ Joe Kent is running for the 3rd Congressional District in Washington State.

☆ DO NOT VOTE FOR Joe Kent!

#traitor #supports vladimir putin #vladimir putin sucks #vladimir putin blows chunks #vladimir putin war criminal #vladimir putin #washington state 3rd congressional district #washington state #midterms #elections

[disappointmentthemusical]

heads up NC 3rd congressional district:

got an email this morning from rep greg murphy re: the "threat" of DEI in medical universities. please make sure to vote no in the survey he provides, as well as call him ((202) 225 -3415) to let him know that he needs to get his priorities straight.

NC is member to the Black Belt, specifically east carolina, yet not a single one of our traditionally white public universities is more than 15% Black. not to mention the fact that chapel hill went to SCOTUS to end affirmative action.

DEI is not a threat, but you know what is? the fact that east carolina's economy hasn't changed since 1865. the fact that the majority of us are living paycheck to paycheck and can't afford the prices at harris teeter/food lion/ingles. the fact that our tax dollars are not only funding a genocide, but also a foreign country's free healthcare system. we have some of the best medical schools in the south, yet i can't afford to take an ambulance to any one of the UNC/ECU/Duke hospitals.

we cannot stand for this. if rep murphy wants to play in our faces, then we need to let him know that there's consequences.

#free palestine #free gaza #palestine #gaza #dei #north carolina #nc 3rd congressional district #east carolina #unc #ecu #representative gregory murphy #medical school