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Posted on 05/26/2026 7:20:47 AM PDT by CFW
A federal court has blocked Alabama from using its new congressional map, ordering the state to use a court-imposed map with 2 majority-black seats for the 2026 elections.
The three-judge panel finds that Plaintiffs are likely to succeed on their Section 2 claims even after Callais.
It also finds that Alabama intentionally discriminated against black voters in violation of the 14th Amendment.
The Court finds that Purcell does not bar relief because the court-imposed map is the operational status quo.
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I expect that will go to the 11th Circuit immediately.
I presume there will be an emergency application to the US SC?
I expect this to happen in other states. The lower court hacks will overrule the SC. Meanwhile the entire New England region is allowed to block any Republican representation.
The Legislature well knew that a plan without an additional Black-opportunity district would dilute Black Alabamians’ opportunity to participate in the political process, and it intentionally enacted that very plan. Further, the Legislature well knew what dilutive mechanisms would prevent Black voters in Alabama’s Black Belt and Gulf Coast communities Case 2:21-cv-01530-AMM Document 537 Filed 05/26/26 Page 3 of 102 4 from having any opportunity to elect representatives of their choice, and the Legislature employed precisely those mechanisms. The Legislature also took a series of highly unusual steps along the way. Those unprecedented steps culminated in the enactment of novel legislative findings (“the 2023 legislative findings”) that departed sharply from the Legislature’s norms and made it impossible not only to remediate the vote dilution we identified, but also to respect the longstanding community of interest the Legislature identified in Alabama’s Black BeltThat right there suggests that the Court is imposing its own race based agenda.
This ruling literally flies in the face of the US Supreme court ruling. This is as egregious a middle finger a lower court can give to the upper court..
JUST WOW!
So predictable.
Wild isn’t it, The Supreme court ruling literally stated race cannot be a reason and they stated race must be a reason.
The 3 judge panel put their pro-black race blinders on and write:
The Legislature well knew that a plan without an additional Black-opportunity district would dilute Black Alabamians’ opportunity to participate in the political process, and it intentionally enacted that very plan. Further, the Legislature well knew what dilutive mechanisms would prevent Black voters in Alabama’s Black Belt and Gulf Coast communities Case 2:21-cv-01530-AMM Document 537 Filed 05/26/26 Page 3 of 102 4 from having any opportunity to elect representatives of their choice, and the Legislature employed precisely those mechanisms. The Legislature also took a series of highly unusual steps along the way. Those unprecedented steps culminated in the enactment of novel legislative findings (“the 2023 legislative findings”) that departed sharply from the Legislature’s norms and made it impossible not only to remediate the vote dilution we identified, but also to respect the longstanding community of interest the Legislature identified in Alabama’s Black Belt.
That right there suggests that the Court is imposing its own race based agenda.
I suspect it will fo to the appeals court, and they will overrule the federal judge, because of the Supreme Court ruling that gerry mandering for racial purposes are not consitutional, in the Louisiana case that the Supreme Court heard on ruled on.
I think 60 years of " giving back " and the "Grwat society " experiment is over, it never did what it was supposed to do.
instead of raising blacks to a higher level in society, blacks have drug society to a much lower level.
black culture never wanted to change. Instead, they wanted whites to finance their lifestyle.
I expect it will be immediately appealed. It’s going to be interesting to see if lower courts just decide that redistricting for political reasons is racist.
News article:
“Federal court rules Alabama must use map that granted two Democrat seats”
“The panel on Monday said it could not allow the state to move forward with the 2023 map “tainted by intentional race-based discrimination.”
“After (an) exacting review, we conclude that a preliminary injunction must issue. Ultimately, we cannot see our way clear to requiring Alabamians to cast their votes in the 2026 elections under a districting plan tainted by intentional race-based discrimination,” the judges wrote in their ruling.
“And under the unusual circumstances of this case, we conclude that a limited order requiring the Secretary to continue using this Court’s race-blind map will not disrupt Alabama’s elections (all candidates ran under the race-blind map until fifteen days ago, and all voters remain districted under the race-blind map in electoral computer systems).”
“use a court-imposed map”
A stop needs to put to this bullshit once and for all.
Every legal point in the quote from the ruling is no longer valid according to SCOTUS’ recent ruling. Diluting black votes is no longer per se illegal if it’s done for partisan advantage and not racial animosity.
SCOTUS: “This is our ruling.”
Federal Court: “Eff you.”
District Court: “Shut up.”
District Attorney: “No.”
Traffic Court Judge: “I hereby overturn the SCOTUS.”
Alabama Dog Catcher: “I rule that SCOTUS has no standing.”
“Black-opportunity district”
gotta love that language Meister.
“from having any opportunity to elect representatives of their choice”
Half the country can’t elect representatives of their choice because of DEMOCRAT election corruption offering only Leftist candidates.
Oh. All of a sudden the Court finds a plaintiff with “standing.”
Oh. All of a sudden the Court finds a plaintiff with “standing.”
It’s amazing how that works, isn’t it?
SCOTUS, when it was a court of actual justices that understood the role and nature of the inferior courts, told the 9th Circuit to sit in the corner in a 1992 California execution for a 1978 double murder committed by Robert Alton Harris
SAN QUENTIN — After an extraordinary bicoastal judicial duel kept his fate in doubt throughout the night, Robert Alton Harris died in San Quentin’s gas chamber at sunrise Tuesday, becoming the first person executed in California in 25 years.
Harris, 39, was pronounced dead at 6:21 a.m., just 36 minutes after the U. S. Supreme Court overturned the last of four overnight reprieves that delayed his execution by more than six hours.
Earlier Tuesday, a seemingly jaunty Harris came within seconds of death but was rescued by a federal judge, who halted the execution even as the acid used to form the lethal gas flowed into a vat beneath the prisoner’s seat
but here’s how it ended when SCOTUS took an FAFO approach to the inferior courts in California:
That final stay was quickly tossed out by the U.S. Supreme Court, which clearly had had its fill of the Harris case. In an unprecedented ruling that capped a night of coast-to-coast faxes and deliberations, the (SCOTUS) justices voted 7 to 2 to forbid any federal court from meddling further in the execution.
SCOTUS needs to take the same exact approach to redistricting and put all the inferior courts in the corner.
“No further stays of Robert Alton Harris’ execution shall be entered by federal courts except upon order of this court”
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