Quote Originally Posted by oskar View Post
The legislators that drafted the voter ID law requested a voter breakdown by race. Based on that breakdown they sought to limit opportunity of access for black voters in at least 5 different ways. Gerrymandering limits the voting power. It does effectively the same thing as limiting opportunity of access. NC blacks are massively more likely to vote democrat. Given the number of proposed changes that overwhelmingly affect african americans, the supreme court agreed that it constituted racial discrimination. But I don't even want to go there. It could be that the intent was not racist, and just fraud. That doesn't change that the resulting changes in the proposed law were discriminatory.

The Gerrymandering thing might have been separate, but the court documents are both from 2016.

Here's a quote from the supreme court document I linked:
And just think, without "suspect classification", we might be able to think clearly on this, that gerrymandering is wrong yet isn't about racism.