Supreme Court news: Justices reject Alabama GOP congressional map under Voting Rights Act

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Supreme Court news: Justices reject Alabama GOP congressional map under Voting Rights Act

by Kaelan Deese, Supreme Court Reporter 
June 08, 2023 10:37 AM

The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled Alabama discriminated against black voters during its redistricting process last year, a decision that relied on the Voting Rights Act.

The ruling in the case Allen v. Milligan means that Alabama will have to redraw its congressional map to include a second majority-black district. The 5-4 decision was written by Chief Justice John Roberts and saw Justice Brett Kavanaugh join, marking an alliance between two conservatives and three liberals in the majority.

Through this decision, the 6-3 Republican-appointed majority turned away Alabama's effort to make it more difficult to alleviate concerns by civil rights groups that raise allegations about redistricting efforts that dilute the power of black voters.

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https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/courts/scotus-reject-gop-redistricting-map-in-alabama-under-voting-rights

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Supreme Court news: Justices reject Alabama GOP congressional map under Voting Rights Act
by Kaelan Deese, Supreme Court Reporter |
June 08, 2023 10:37 AM

The Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that Alabama discriminated against black voters during its redistricting process last year, a decision that relied on the Voting Rights Act.

The ruling in Allen v. Milligan means that Alabama will have to redraw its congressional map to include a second majority-black district. The 5-4 decision was written by Chief Justice John Roberts and saw Justice Brett Kavanaugh join, marking an alliance between two conservatives and three liberals in the majority.

With the help of Roberts and Kavanaugh, the decision tells Alabama it should have created a second black-majority district, upholding a three-judge panel that threw out the previous map that included only one district with a majority of black voters despite African Americans comprising more than a quarter of the state's population.

Abha Khanna, an attorney with Elias Law Group who argued the case on behalf of the respondents who sued the state, lauded the Supreme Court's decision as an upholding of the district court's decision using "decades of established precedent."

"Thankfully, the court today identified Alabama’s redistricting scheme as a textbook violation of the landmark civil rights law," Khanna said.

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https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/courts/scotus-reject-gop-redistricting-map-in-alabama-under-voting-rights

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At some point, this bullshit has to stop. 

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 The conservative Supreme Court might have paved the way for Dems to take the House

The shocking decision could have a domino effect.



By Ally Mutnick, Brittany Gibson, Zach Montellaro and Steven Shepard

06/08/2023 08:17 PM EDT

The Supreme Court just handed Democrats a huge favor: a ruling that likely widens their path back to the House majority in 2024.

Democrats are poised to net a congressional seat in Alabama next November after Chief Justice John Roberts’ surprising opinion affirming a lower court’s findings that Republican mapmakers had likely illegally diluted the power of Black voters in the state.

But the ruling could very well have implications beyond Alabama. In declining to further weaken the Voting Rights Act, the high court opened the door for Democrats to make other claims of racial gerrymandering in states across the South. That decision could possibly cause a domino effect in Louisiana, South Carolina, Georgia and Texas, which may be forced to add new districts where Black and Latino voters would hold greater sway.

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https://www.politico.com/news/2023/06/08/conservative-supreme-court-dems-house-vra-00101166

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John Roberts!