Black voting rights

NY Times -  Two Southern governors on Friday said they would summon their state’s lawmakers to consider new House maps under the newly weakened Voting Rights Act, as Republicans rushed to dilute majority-Black districts before November’s midterm elections.

The governors, Bill Lee of Tennessee and Kay Ivey of Alabama, both Republican, moved to call special sessions next week, as the effect of this week’s Supreme Court decision began spreading beyond its immediate target, Louisiana. The court on Wednesday rejected Louisiana’s congressional map as an illegal racial gerrymander, prompting that state’s governor, the Republican Jeff Landry, to delay his state’s House primary as lawmakers considered a new congressional map that would endanger at least one Democratic seat.

....At least six majority-Black districts held by Democrats — two in Louisiana, one in Tennessee, two in Alabama and one in South Carolina — could be in play, though a clean sweep is unlikely.