{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://troycarter.house.gov/media/press-releases/congressman-troy-carter-denounces-supreme-courts-ruling-dilute-voices-black", "Congressman Troy Carter Denounces Supreme Court\u2019s Ruling to Dilute the Voices of Black Voters", "2022-06-28", "2022", "2022-06", "Democrat", "House", "LA", "Troy A. Carter", "C001125", "troycarter.house.gov", "troycarter", "https://troycarter.house.gov/media/press-releases", "scraper", "NEW ORLEANS, L.A. \u2013 Today, Congressman Troy A. Carter, Sr. released the following statement after the Supreme Court released a shadow docket ruling reinstating Louisiana's GOP-drawn, unrepresentative congressional maps.\n\n\u201cWars were fought, movements were launched, and constitutional amendments were passed to give every American of every race and gender full citizenship and the right to vote.\n\n\u201cToday, the Supreme Court released a shadow docket ruling that sends Louisiana back to our tarnished history of diminishing and silencing the voices of African Americans.\n\n\u201cIt is shameful that the court refused to let the process here in Louisiana play out to draw maps that fairly represent the population of Louisiana.\n\n\u201cWe need maps that follow the math and give Black Louisianians their rightful representation in our democratic system. There should be no political gamesmanship when it comes to our representative democracy.\n\n\u201cThis Supreme Court is out of control in so many ways, but this and other recent rulings make one thing is clear: It will stop at nothing to silence the voice of Black and Brown voters in the South and across the country.\n\n\u201cToday shows that many of these justices are partisan hacks, loyal not to the Constitution, but to a far-right political agenda.\n\n\u201cWe must speak in one voice against the age-old pattern of silencing and diluting Black votes and voices in our democratic system.\n\n\u201cWhile the forces of injustice may have won this battle we, as we have before, will win the war.\u201d", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T18:13:54Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://troycarter.house.gov/media/press-releases/congressman-troy-carter-denounces-supreme-courts-ruling-dilute-voices-black"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.7796878926455975, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}