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华盛顿 —— 佐治亚州民主党参议员拉斐尔·沃诺克将最高法院上周推翻路易斯安那州国会选区地图并限缩《选举权法案》适用范围的裁决称为“一记沉重且毁灭性的打击”，同时警告了该裁决对选区划分斗争的影响。
“令人遗憾的是，最高法院为这场选区划分军备竞赛火上浇油，”沃诺克周日在《与玛格丽特·布伦南会面》节目中表示。
这项裁决是共和党人的关键胜利，推翻了包含两个非裔占多数选区的地图。此次裁决此前引发了一场始于去年的选区划分大战：特朗普的政治团队敦促得克萨斯州共和党领导人重新绘制该州国会选区地图，这引发了加州民主党人的反击，以及两党在其他州重新绘制本州选区地图的行动。
沃诺克是一名牧师，自2021年起代表佐治亚州出任参议员。他表示，自己支持民主党在选区划分问题上的行动，“因为唐纳德·特朗普——他比我认识的任何人都更擅长分裂我们——发起了选区划分的军备竞赛”。
“我不赞同操纵选区划分，但我们不能单方面解除武装，”沃诺克说。“正是他打电话给得克萨斯州， literally 说‘给我多争取六个席位’。因此加州和其他州不得不做出回应，弗吉尼亚州也是如此。”
但沃诺克表示，“真正的解决方案是禁止党派操纵选区划分”，他称这种行为“彻底颠覆了我们的选举，不再是人民选择他们的政客或公职人员，而是政客选择他们的选民”。
最高法院的裁决限缩了具有里程碑意义的《选举权法案》的适用范围，保守派多数大法官认定，遵守第2条条款无法成为该州在重新划分国会选区时使用种族因素的正当理由。预计这一结果将使少数族裔选民和选举权维权团体更难依据第2条条款成功挑战投票地图，其影响将远超路易斯安那州的政治代表权问题。
自最高法院作出裁决以来，包括路易斯安那州和田纳西州在内的少数几个州的共和党州长已呼吁召开州议会特别会议，或以其他方式表达了重新绘制国会选区地图的兴趣。
沃诺克表示，“本周发生的事情无异于一记沉重且毁灭性的打击，不仅打击了我们的民主，尤其打击了南方的有色人种群体”。
“我们将看到这一裁决带来的破坏性影响，现在比以往任何时候都更需要我们挺身而出，为我们的民主而战，”他说。
在谈及《选举权法案》及更广泛的相关法律时，沃诺克表示：“我知道有些人对补救措施感到厌倦——但我对种族主义感到厌倦。”
“比起病症本身，更担心治疗手段，这在我看来十分奇怪，”沃诺克说。
这位佐治亚州民主党人指出了近几十年来《选举权法案》的变化，包括2013年最高法院废除了一项要求各州在根据第5条条款修改投票程序前需获得联邦政府预先批准的公式。他表示，“自从他们移除了第5条的保护措施后，那些过去惯用老伎俩的州，如今玩起了新花招”。
“他们披上了21世纪吉姆·克劳策略的外衣——迁移投票站、关闭黑人和拉丁裔社区的投票点，”沃诺克说。“而如今，根据本周的裁决，他们声称即便你前来投票，我们也已经开了绿灯，让政客们可以在选区地图上做手脚，这样即便你克服了这些障碍前来投票，你的声音也会被压制。”
在代表权问题上，沃诺克称那种认为代表权无关紧要的观点“无视历史，无视事实——是无知的”。
“每周我走进参议院时，都会带着我作为在萨凡纳公共住房中长大的黑人孩子的故事和经历，就像那位在阿巴拉契亚长大的白人孩子一样，”他说。“而当我们打造出一个日益单一的群体时——我认为这正是本周这项裁决将导致的结果——我们会损害民主本身，也更难制定出包容我们所有孩子、给予每个孩子机会的政策。”
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/sen-warnock-says-voting-rights-decision-poured-fuel-on-this-redistricting-arms-race/
Sen. Raphael Warnock says Supreme Court’s voting rights decision “poured fuel on this redistricting arms race”
May 3, 2026 / 12:52 PM EDT / CBS News
Washington — Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock of Georgia called the Supreme Court’s decision last week to strike down Louisiana’s congressional map and narrow the Voting Rights Act “a massive and devastating blow,” while warning of its implications for the redistricting fight.
“The court, sadly, poured fuel on this redistricting arms race,” Warnock said Sunday on “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan.”
The ruling was a key victory for Republicans, striking down a map that included two majority-Black districts. And it followed a redistricting battle that began last year when President Trump’s political team pushed Texas GOP leaders to redraw the state’s congressional map, which sparked a counterpush by Democrats in California and efforts by both parties in other states to redraw their maps.
Warnock, a pastor who’s represented Georgia in the Senate since 2021, said he supports the push by Democrats on redistricting “because Donald Trump — who is better at dividing us than anybody I know — instituted an arms race in redistricting.”
“I don’t like gerrymandering, but we could not unilaterally disarm,” Warnock said. “He’s the one who called Texas and said, literally, ‘give me six more seats.’ And so California and other states had to respond, Virginia, in kind.”
But Warnock said “the solution to this really is to ban partisan gerrymandering,” which he said “turns our elections on its head, so that rather than the people picking their politicians or their public servants, the politicians are picking their voters.”
The high court’s decision narrowed the landmark Voting Rights Act, with the court’s conservative majority finding that compliance with Section 2 could not justify the state’s use of race in redrawing its House district lines. The outcome is expected to make it more difficult for minority voters and voting rights groups to successfully challenge voting maps under Section 2, with implications far beyond political representation in Louisiana.
Since the Supreme Court’s decision,Republican governors in a handful of states, including Louisiana and Tennessee, have called for special sessions of the state legislature or otherwise expressed interest in redrawing congressional maps.
Warnock said “what happened this week is nothing less than a massive and devastating blow, not only to our democracy, but particularly to people of color in the South.”
“We will see a devastating impact as a result of this, and now, more than ever, we’ve got to stand up and fight for our democracy,” he said.
On the Voting Rights Act and the law more broadly, Warnock said “I know that there are those who are tired of the remedy — I’m tired of racism.”
“I think it’s a strange position to be more concerned about the medicine than you are about the malady,” Warnock said.
The Georgia Democrat pointed to changes to the Voting Rights Act in recent decades, including when the high court in 2013 struck down a formula for states to get preclearance from the federal government before instituting voting procedure changes under Section 5. He said “since they removed the protections of Section Five, states that used to play old games, they’re playing new games.”
“They’re 21st Century Jim Crow tactics in new clothes — moving voter polls, closing polls in Black and brown communities,” Warnock said. “And now, as a result of the decision this week, they’re saying that even when you show up, we have given the green light so that politicians can play games with the lines, so that even when you overcome those barriers to show up, your voices will be muted.”
On the question of representation, Warnock said the idea that it doesn’t matter “ignores history, it ignores the facts — it’s uninformed.”
“When I go to the Senate, every week, I bring my story and my experience as a Black kid who grew up in public housing in Savannah, and so does that White kid who grew up in Appalachia,” he said. “And so when, when we create an increasing monolith, which is what I think is going to happen as a result of this decision this week, we hurt the democracy itself, and we make it harder to get at a policy, policies that embrace all of our children and give every child a chance.”
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/sen-warnock-says-voting-rights-decision-poured-fuel-on-this-redistricting-arms-race/
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