(Clay Jones, claytoonz.com)
Fixing the hole blown in the Voting Rights Act by the Republican "justices" on the Supreme Court isn't likely to happen soon. Greg Sargent explains why:
...There’s no incentive for House Republicans to act.
“A strong plurality of House Republicans are from the south, and their strategy has been to pack African Americans into one district across some southern states, and preserve every other district for themselves,” [David] Wasserman of the Cook Political report tells me. He adds that Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, South Carolina, Virginia and Tennessee each have one such black-heavy district, while North Carolina has two. [snip]
“House Republicans are pretty happy with the status quo in the south — particularly the fact that packing African Americans has led to safe Republican surrounding districts,” Wasserman continues. “Any efforts to newly implement a pre-clearance regime could interfere with that status quo.”That's why photo ops are about the only thing we'll get (and then, reluctantly) from the Republican/ New Confederate/ Stupid Party.
