"These are drawn for one purpose and one purpose only, which is, let's create a district with the majority of Black voters in it, and we can't under the Voting Rights Act then have what's called retrogression."
"Think what we would be saying if we said, All right, you have to draw white majority districts, or Latino majority districts, or Asian-American majority districts, and engaged in that kind of, you know, sort of, you know, race groupings in order to create districts dominated by one race."
"Most states have already set the elections, they've had their primaries, they've set the filing deadlines. Alabama has already said, Look, we recognize that we've got to redo this, but we cannot do it this year."
Karl Rove stated that the Supreme Court's decision to eliminate a gerrymandered minority-majority district in Louisiana could empower Black voters. He explained that districts were drawn to maintain a majority of Black voters to comply with the Voting Rights Act. Rove argued that creating districts based solely on race is problematic. He noted that most states have already set their elections and will address redistricting in future cycles, suggesting that concerns about Black voter representation are overstated.
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