Posted on 09/05/2023 10:04:45 AM PDT by Coronal
Alabama's Republican-backed congressional map illegally dilutes Black residents' voting power and must be redrawn, a panel of federal judges ruled on Tuesday, boosting Democrats' chances to win back a U.S. House majority.
The ruling is the second time the court has thrown out a congressional plan enacted by the Republican-controlled state legislature, and the three-judge panel in Birmingham wrote that it saw little reason to give lawmakers a third chance. Instead, a court-appointed special master will be tasked with creating a new map.
"We have now said twice that this Voting Rights Act case is not close," the judges wrote. "And we are deeply troubled that the State enacted a map that the State readily admits does not provide the remedy we said federal law requires."
Under the Republican map, only one of the state's seven congressional districts is majority Black, though Black residents make up more than a quarter of the state's population. The state's lone Democratic U.S. representative, Terri Sewell, represents that district.
The panel first intervened in 2022, ruling that an earlier Republican plan was illegal. After the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the panel's decision in June, the Birmingham court ordered Alabama legislators to create a second district with either a Black majority or "something quite close" to comply with the Voting Rights Act. The law bars lawmakers from drawing district lines in a manner that discriminates against minority voters.
The latest plan increased the number of Black voters in a second district but fell short of a majority, prompting civil rights groups to challenge the new map in court again.
The Alabama case is among several legal battles over redistricting that could result in new congressional maps in at least half a dozen states, enough to determine congressional control in the November 2024 election.
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“ But what if these “majority people-of-color” districts thus created begin voting for the Republican candidates in earnest?”
What if I am made King of the United States? What if the sun turns purple? What if schools start teaching math?
Stanley Marcus [11th Circuit], Rapin' Bill Clinton stooge, Anna M. Manasco and Terry F. Moorer, Trump judges.
Anna M. Manasco [ND Alabama], confirmed by a 71–21 vote [whole lotta "Ds" said "Yea"...
Terry F. Moorer [SD Alabama], reported out of the Senate Judiciary committee by a 17–4 vote, confirmed by voice vote.
I'd classify Manasco and Moorer as McConnell judges. Stanley Marcus is a Republican who "grew in office", and even before that [he was acceptable to Rapin' Bill and the Dems at the time].
Stanley Marcus [11th Circuit], Rapin' Bill Clinton stooge, Anna M. Manasco and Terry F. Moorer, Trump judges.
Anna M. Manasco [ND Alabama], confirmed by a 71–21 vote [whole lotta "Ds" said "Yea"...
Terry F. Moorer [SD Alabama], reported out of the Senate Judiciary committee by a 17–4 vote, confirmed by voice vote.
I'd classify Manasco and Moorer as McConnell judges. Stanley Marcus is a Republican who "grew in office", and even before that [he was acceptable to Rapin' Bill and the Dems at the time].
Stanley Marcus [11th Circuit], Rapin' Bill Clinton stooge, Anna M. Manasco and Terry F. Moorer, Trump judges.
Anna M. Manasco [ND Alabama], confirmed by a 71–21 vote [whole lotta "Ds" said "Yea"...
Terry F. Moorer [SD Alabama], reported out of the Senate Judiciary committee by a 17–4 vote, confirmed by voice vote.
I'd classify Manasco and Moorer as McConnell judges. Stanley Marcus is a Republican who "grew in office", and even before that [he was acceptable to Rapin' Bill and the Dems at the time].
What if the blacks who make up a quarter of the population all live within a certain area?
Black robed fascists.
I just read the text of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. It’s all about ensuring the right to vote for nonwhite citizens—no literacy tests, no poll taxes, no intimidation, etc. I didn’t see anything about guaranteeing that nonwhite citizens get the winning candidate of their choice but maybe it’s hidden in the legalese.
The article doesn’t name the judges, or even which court it was. What a surprise!
Of course they have ZERO problem though with naming the Attorney General of Alabama, and the fact he’s a Republican.
“The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.”
The Fifteenth Amendment guarantees an individual right to vote. I don’t see ANYTHING here about making contorting district lines into whatever shape or form is necessary to ensure a majority of a particular “race, color, or previous condition of servitude.”
Racism.
Calling SCOTUS…clean up in aisle 12.
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