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<blockquote style="position: relative; padding-left: 55px;"><section><a href="https://journa.host/users/chrisgeidner/statuses/112889234668737538">Chris Geidner (chrisgeidner@journa.host)'s status on Friday, 02-Aug-2024 11:42:49 JST</a><a href="https://journa.host/@chrisgeidner" title="chrisgeidner@journa.host"><img src="https://gnusocial.jp/avatar/75697-48-20240516135537.webp" width="48" height="48" alt="Chris Geidner" style="position: absolute; left: 0; top: 0;">Chris Geidner</a></section><article><p>BREAKING: The Fifth Circuit further guts the Voting Rights Act, holding that Section 2 vote dilution claims cannot be based on "coalitions of racial and language minorities." Edith Jones, a Reagan appointee, writes the 12-6 opinion for the en banc court. <a href="https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.ca5.216176/gov.uscourts.ca5.216176.347.1.pdf" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.ca5.216176/gov.uscourts.ca5.216176.347.1.pdf</a></p></article><footer><a rel="bookmark" href="https://gnusocial.jp/conversation/3463218#notice-6807329">In conversation</a><time datetime="2024-08-02T11:42:49+09:00" title="Friday, 02-Aug-2024 11:42:49 JST">about 4 months ago</time> <span>from <span><a href="https://journa.host/@chrisgeidner/112889234668737538" rel="external" title="Sent from journa.host via ActivityPub">journa.host</a></span></span><a href="https://journa.host/@chrisgeidner/112889234668737538">permalink</a><h4>Attachments</h4><ol><li><label><a rel="external" href="https://gnusocial.jp/attachment/2989092">ON PETITION FOR REHEARING EN BANC
Before Richman, Chief Judge, and Jones, Smith, Barksdale,
Stewart, Elrod, Southwick, Haynes, Graves, Higginson,
Willett, Ho, Duncan, Engelhardt, Oldham, Wilson,
Douglas, and Ramirez, Circuit Judges.
Edith H. Jones, Circuit Judge, joined by Richman*, Chief Judge, and
Smith, Barksdale, Elrod, Southwick, Willett, Ho†,
Duncan, Engelhardt, Oldham, and Wilson, Circuit Judges:
_____________________
* Judge Richman joins all but Section II.D.
† Judge Ho joins Sections I, II.C., and III only.The issue in this en banc case is whether Section 2 of the Voting Rights
Act authorizes coalitions of racial and language minorities to claim vote dilution in legislative redistricting. In an increasingly multiracial and multi-language polity, the importance of this issue is obvious. We overrule this court’s
decision in Campos v. City of Baytown, 840 F.2d 1240, 1244 (5th Cir. 1988),
and its progeny, which allowed such claims to be maintained.</a></label><br><a href="https://assets.journa.host/media_attachments/files/112/889/234/134/310/889/original/9ae94159a1e9ad0b.png" rel="external">https://assets.journa.host/media_attachments/files/112/889/234/134/310/889/original/9ae94159a1e9ad0b.png</a></li><li><label><a rel="external" href="https://gnusocial.jp/attachment/2989093">Galveston County’s democratically elected Commissioners Court
enacted Map 2. The district court determined that this map was unlawful
under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act and required the commissioners
court to adopt a new one with a minority-majority precinct for the county’s
black and Hispanic voters. Having reconsidered Campos, we hold that this
decision was wrong. Section 2 does not require political subdivisions to draw
precinct lines for the electoral benefit of distinct minority groups that share
political preferences but lack the cementing force of race or ethnicity.Campos v. City of Baytown, 840 F.2d 1240 (5th Cir. 1988), and its progeny are
OVERRULED.
Accordingly, we REVERSE the judgment of the district court as to
the Section 2 claim and REMAND for the district court to consider the
intentional discrimination and racial gerrymandering claims brought by the
Petteway Plaintiffs and the NAACP Plaintiffs.13</a></label><br><a href="https://assets.journa.host/media_attachments/files/112/889/234/424/628/118/original/9705deb6df1af9ff.png" rel="external">https://assets.journa.host/media_attachments/files/112/889/234/424/628/118/original/9705deb6df1af9ff.png</a></li><li><label><a rel="external" href="https://gnusocial.jp/attachment/2989094">Untitled attachment</a></label><br></li></ol></footer></blockquote>

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BREAKING: The Fifth Circuit further guts the Voting Rights Act, holding that Section 2 vote dilution claims cannot be based on "coalitions of racial and language minorities." Edith Jones, a Reagan appointee, writes the 12-6 opinion for the en banc court. https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.ca5.216176/gov.uscourts.ca5.216176.347.1.pdf
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