The three fifths rule was a compromise between slave states that wanted to count slaves along with free inhabitants in order to give greater representation to their owners and free states that did not want to count them at all.
In effect and by design, it gave more power in congress to voters who owned slaves as compared with those who did not.
Apparently, the rule now in place assigns more power in congress to voters in districts containing more illegals and other non-citizens, as well as others ineligible to vote, than to voters in districts containing fewer.
And that is a rule this liberal wants to see continue in force because it favors non-whites and Democrats, styling the proposal to do otherwise an attack on voting rights.
If the Supreme Court agrees with the challengers wholeheartedly, the case is poised to upend not just Texas’ redistricting plan but could cause chaos in other areas where districts have a relatively high number of non-eligible voters, which include not just undocumented immigrants, but children, prisoners, and in some places ex-felons.
The challenge is being treated by civil rights advocates as an attempt to undermine the growing political power of left-leaning minorities, while undermining the fundamental idea that representation should be based on the number of people a politician represents, rather than those eligible to vote for him.
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