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WASHINGTON -- A divided Supreme Court on Wednesday said a lower court must take another look at whether Alabama s Republican-led legislature relied too heavily on race when it redrew the state s voting districts in a way that black leaders say limited mino stanley cup rity voting power.The justices split 5-4 across ideological lines in ruling that a three-judge panel did not properly consider complaints that state officials illegally packed black voters into too few voting districts.Writing for the court, Justice Stephen Breyer said the lower court should have reviewed claims of racial gerryman stanley cup dering on a district-by-district level, not just statewide. He also said the court didn t apply the right test when it found that race wasn t the primary motiv stanley cups ating factor.Breyer said both the district court and the state legislature relied too much on a mechanically numerical view of whether the new plan reduced minority voting strength. They asked how to maintain the present minority percentages in majority-minority districts, instead of asking the extent to which they must preserve existing minority percentages in order to maintain the minority s present ability to elect the candidate of its choice, Breyer said. Asking the wrong question may well have led to the wrong answer. Justice Anthony Kennedy, often a swing vote, joined the court s four liberals in the majority, including Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor. State Crft How the anti-abortion amendment was defeated in Kansas
A roundup of news, schedules, and key stories from CBS News Political Director Steve Chaggaris:STIMULUS UPDATE: Late Thursday night as President Obama was wrapping up a visit to a House Democrats retreat in Williamsburg, Va., Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid drew the line on the economic stimulus debate. AP Photo/Susan Walsh Reid said he believed that Democrats could muscle the st stanley cup nz imulus bill through with at least two Republican votes, reports the New York Times David M. Herszenhorn. But late Thursday he said he would give the bipartisan group [led by Sens. Ben Nelson, D-Neb., and Susan Collins, R-Maine] until Friday to reach a deal. If no deal is reached, he said he would call for procedural vote on Sunday aimed at moving to final vote. President Obama, for his part, wa stanley mug s sounding like the fired up, ready to go Candidate Obama during his remarks to House Democrats last nig stanley trinkflaschen ht. Ramping up his aggressiveness in order to rally the troops to finish work on the first priority of his presidency, Mr. Obama reached into his campaign bag of tricks to bash Congressional Republicans. AP [D]on t come to the table with the same tired arguments and worn ideas that helped to create this crisis. ... Come on, we re not -- we are not going to get relief by turning back to the very same policies that for the last eight years doubled the national debt and threw our economy into a tailspin, he told the lawmakers to applause. This is not a game.
WASHINGTON -- A divided Supreme Court on Wednesday said a lower court must take another look at whether Alabama s Republican-led legislature relied too heavily on race when it redrew the state s voting districts in a way that black leaders say limited mino stanley cup rity voting power.The justices split 5-4 across ideological lines in ruling that a three-judge panel did not properly consider complaints that state officials illegally packed black voters into too few voting districts.Writing for the court, Justice Stephen Breyer said the lower court should have reviewed claims of racial gerryman stanley cup dering on a district-by-district level, not just statewide. He also said the court didn t apply the right test when it found that race wasn t the primary motiv stanley cups ating factor.Breyer said both the district court and the state legislature relied too much on a mechanically numerical view of whether the new plan reduced minority voting strength. They asked how to maintain the present minority percentages in majority-minority districts, instead of asking the extent to which they must preserve existing minority percentages in order to maintain the minority s present ability to elect the candidate of its choice, Breyer said. Asking the wrong question may well have led to the wrong answer. Justice Anthony Kennedy, often a swing vote, joined the court s four liberals in the majority, including Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor. State Crft How the anti-abortion amendment was defeated in Kansas
A roundup of news, schedules, and key stories from CBS News Political Director Steve Chaggaris:STIMULUS UPDATE: Late Thursday night as President Obama was wrapping up a visit to a House Democrats retreat in Williamsburg, Va., Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid drew the line on the economic stimulus debate. AP Photo/Susan Walsh Reid said he believed that Democrats could muscle the st stanley cup nz imulus bill through with at least two Republican votes, reports the New York Times David M. Herszenhorn. But late Thursday he said he would give the bipartisan group [led by Sens. Ben Nelson, D-Neb., and Susan Collins, R-Maine] until Friday to reach a deal. If no deal is reached, he said he would call for procedural vote on Sunday aimed at moving to final vote. President Obama, for his part, wa stanley mug s sounding like the fired up, ready to go Candidate Obama during his remarks to House Democrats last nig stanley trinkflaschen ht. Ramping up his aggressiveness in order to rally the troops to finish work on the first priority of his presidency, Mr. Obama reached into his campaign bag of tricks to bash Congressional Republicans. AP [D]on t come to the table with the same tired arguments and worn ideas that helped to create this crisis. ... Come on, we re not -- we are not going to get relief by turning back to the very same policies that for the last eight years doubled the national debt and threw our economy into a tailspin, he told the lawmakers to applause. This is not a game.