Supreme Court Clears the Way for Alabama to Use Racially Discriminatory Map

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Despite Justice Samuel Alito’s insistence that the Callais decision did not overturn the Court’s 2023 ruling requiring Alabama to draw a second majority-Black district, it seems to have done just that. An unnamed Court majority lifted its block on the map Monday evening, likely clearing the way for the state to hold its 2026 elections under a map with only one Democratic seat.

Against that backdrop, Virginia Democrats are nevertheless being squeamish about a plan to overturn the state Supreme Court’s ruling invalidating a voter-passed redistricting amendment.

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  1. Avatar for 1gg 1gg says:

    I hope when the Democrats win in November they enact an new Civil Rights bill for the entire nation.

  2. The presence of a single non-white person (excepting the handful of self-hating tokens) in the halls of Congress is an existential crisis for these bigoted scumbags. Next up: the authors of the 19th amendment clearly intended it to bar women from voting for or holding public office.

  3. How are all these States going to pay for these additional elections and redistricting efforts?

    Raise taxes?

    Cut funding for Public Schools?

    Never mind…

  4. Well, they’ll have to be creative, and perhaps look to the past.

    Perhaps a small fee to fund the God-given right to cast a vote? As a measure of freedom, of course. What righteous American could be against that?

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