The Supreme Court’s Alabama Redistricting Ruling Looks Like a Holding Pattern, Not a Power Grab, Eric Boehm, Reason.com

But the case against Alabama’s new districts is hardly clear-cut. On the map approved by state lawmakers, there would be six likely Republican districts and one majority-black, likely Democratic district. What you think about that split probably depends on your own political leanings, but the operative question in the federal lawsuit is whether state lawmakers in Alabama (a state where about 27 percent of the population is black) should be required by federal courts to draw a second majority-minority district.

… i am pretty liberal… i’ve been a registered Dem for all my voting life, though i am seriously considering changing to a registered Independent… despite my strong liberal leanings i am, and have always been, interested in legitimate and well formulated discussions and arguments from the other side of the spectrum…

… Reason.com, which presents the Libertarian perspective is one of my best go to conservative sources… it presents an argument for the conservative side of things that makes the case without much liberal bashing…

… MSNBC has done all the handwringing about this decision suggested in the article… i suspected that the issues at stake and the reasons for deciding one way or the other were not clear cut… and they aren’t…

Regardless, it was not, as some coverage of the case has suggested, Republican state lawmakers who took radical action here. It was the federal district court, which on the eve of an election overturned a map that is not materially different from the maps that have been used in every congressional election for the past few cycles. Were those maps racially discriminatory too? If so, why weren’t they challenged?

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