The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected an emergency bid from Alabama, setting the stage for a new congressional map likely to include a second Black majority district to account for the state’s 27% Black population.
The one-line order reflects that the feelings on the court haven’t changed since June when a 5-4 Supreme Court affirmed a lower court that had ordered the state to redraw its seven-seat congressional map to include a second majority-Black district or “something quite close to it.”
There were no noted dissents.
The case has been closely watched because after the court’s June ruling, Alabama GOP lawmakers again approved a congressional map with only one majority-Black district, seemingly flouting the Supreme Court’s decision that they provide more political representation for the state’s Black residents.
When you have one of the most conservative SCs in history telling you to redraw the lines, you know shit’s fucked up. Alabama doesn’t care. It’s the armpit of the south. Sorry if you’re from Alabama, but you know what your state is.
Alabama doesn’t care. It’s the armpit of the south.
Mississippi in shambles
…more than usual, at any rate
Seriously though, I lived in Mobile and Mississippi was on another level.
Alabama has Huntsville and Auburn and B’Ham that have genuinely good universities and some diversity.
Mississippi has Brett Favre and Elvis. And Elvis moved the hell out as soon as he could.
Special court appointed master already has drawn two black districts. Fucking cope Alabama.
Also SCOTUS has been stacked to side with these people, but are taking plenty of heat for a while do this is for now, to prove they’re not corrupt pieces of garbage, until the slow businessmen’s plot completes.
More people need to look at the history of that and where those guys went after they got stopped and only got a slap on the wrist.
Sorry, could you please expound a bit?
Oh dude, you’re in for a ride.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Plot#:~:text=The Business Plot
They went on to become big allies with wealth ministry protestants. (Now days we call them evangelists) And used that alliance to slowly push back FDR’s New Deal.
Oh. Yeah I know that, it’s been a while and it’s still happening apparently. I was distracted, my b
Now all they have to do is ignore the court! It’s working in Ohio!
This is painful but we do have a constitutional mechanism for states that can’t figure their electoral shit out legally. Their representatives don’t get seated. And they don’t get electoral college ballots for president.
It’s a 200 year old can of political fuckery that we may just have to open.
The court ordered that a special master draw the lines for the next election, so it sounds like they’ve pre-empted the Ohio strategy.
This is great news! For anyone reading, but especially those in Alabama, make sure to join one of your city/county’s Democratic club/caucus to help organize change at the local level and better influence the direction the Democratic Party takes locally and nationally!
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The case has been closely watched because after the court’s June ruling, Alabama GOP lawmakers again approved a congressional map with only one majority-Black district, seemingly flouting the Supreme Court’s decision that they provide more political representation for the state’s Black residents.
Alabama’s Attorney General Steve Marshall, a Republican, argued that the new map kept communities of interest intact, unifying the so-called Black Belt of the state.
Marshall argued the lower court had erred in requiring that a second majority-Black district be drawn.
“The court gutted the State’s discretion to apply traditional redistricting principles in 2023, by expressly refusing to defer to them when they didn’t yield the ‘right’ racial results,” Marshall said.
Challengers to the map, represented by the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, the ACLU and others, had urged the justices to reject the state’s bid arguing that the map in question dilutes the power of Black voters.
They charged the state with “unabashedly” defying an opinion the justices issued just three months ago.
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