In a surprise decision, the
Supreme Court agreed that Alabama violated the
Voting Rights Act by diluting the Black vote when it drew new congressional maps following the 2020 census.
The court sided with plaintiffs who argued that Alabama’s district maps were an unconstitutional racial gerrymander.
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The 5-4
decision written by Chief Justice John Roberts found that Alabama Republicans improperly denied Black communities a second congressional district by packing them into one district and splitting them into other majority white districts. The decision was joined by liberal Justices Elena Kagan, Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson and conservative Justice Brett Kavanaugh.
The decision in Allen v. Milligan comes as a shock as the court’s conservatives have repeatedly gutted the Voting Rights Act in cases over the past decade including
Shelby County v. Holder and
Brnovich v. Democratic National Committee.
MAGA MAGGOTS don't want free and fair elections. Their idea of a Free and Fair Election is they win, other wise the "
Election Is Rigged". Hence Gerrymandering in Alabama.