Voting Rights 2 Flashcards
What percentage of U.S spending is in services?
70% of all U.S spending is on services.
What is one cause for the Supply Chain Crisis?
Our economy pre pandemic (and consequently the supply chain) was set up to follow a trend whereby services dominated spending at a steady rate. The pandemic has created a situation whereby spending on goods is growing while spending on services is dwindling. dominatedSince services make up 70% of U.S spending,
In South Carolina, what is a form of gerrymandering which has persisted to this day which has already been called unconstitutional by supreme court precedent?
Malapportionment, which sees wide gulfs in district populations across legislative and congressional districts. Malapportionment was struck down in the supreme court in 1964’s Reynolds v. Sims and Wesberry v. Sanders.
What lawsuit has the ACLU and NAACP Legal Defense Fund filed in the October 2021?
They are alleging that South Carolina is attempting to use malapportionment to run down the clock in the 2022 general election. It remains to be seen if the five justices are willing to uphold Reynolds v Wesberry.
How bad was malapportionment in the 60s?
In 10 states, the largest House District was more than 2x that of the smallest district in terms of population. In Texas it was 4x, in Michigan it was a startling 7x.
How was malapportionment done in the 60s, or better put, how was it planned and organized?
Malapportionment was made so that minorities would be packed in Urban cities into huge districts while rural whites were given smaller but equally coercive voting positions in greater amounts. For example, if you lived in Vermont’s smallest House District in the 60s, your vote counted about 868x more than that of the resident in the smallest town district.
What was the decision re
