A Boston Herald story  recounts indictments from the 2000 redistricting in Massachusetts and this claim:  “Moran promised members of the New Democracy Coalition — a group committed to enforcing minority voting rights — over the weekend that he’ll keep at least a 40 percent minority voting bloc in the 8th Congressional District. The district is made up of the north part of Boston, Cambridge, Somerville and Chelsea.”  He says to do otherwise would violate the Voting Rights Act.

It’s hard to understand how Mr. Moran could be correct after Bartlett v. Strickland was decided requiring a rock solid fifty percent threshold to support a Section 2 vote dilution case, unless he thinks reducing BPOP = intentional discrimination.  Good luck.