Gotta be logical a remigration isn't logical at this point. It's just not.
Federal Court **AGAIN*** Strikes Down Alabama’s Congressional Map; GOP failed to comply with a court order to create a 2nd majority-Black district
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I read this book 2 years ago and I agree with it's premise.
We need to control state governments from the governor's office to the state congress to the state supreme courts.
If we fully politically controlled at least 4 states I think our fortunes would be way different.
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By up north I hope you mean Canada,the world is our oyster. Leave America and let Babylon crumble on itself. If leave and are indifferent and righteously unnaffected to it, U.S.Awould become the new Australia in terms of relevancy#TheObserversEffect
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Bu Bu But both sides.
Want racism up front and in your face.
we're on the verge of a constitutional crisis...this escalation continues with the national guard...
AGAIN????
Supreme Court Declines to Revisit Alabama Voting Map Dispute
For the second time in recent months, the Supreme Court ruled against Alabama lawmakers and their proposed congressional district map.
Supreme Court Declines to Revisit Alabama Voting Map Dispute
For the second time in recent months, the Supreme Court ruled against Alabama lawmakers and their proposed congressional district map.
Sept. 26, 2023Updated 10:40 a.m. ET
The proposed new congressional districts were on display at the Alabama statehouse in Montgomery in July.Kim Chandler/Associated Press
The Supreme Court on Tuesday refused Alabama’s request to reinstate a congressional map drawn by Republican lawmakers that had only one majority-Black district, paving the way for a new map to be put in place before the 2024 election.
Alabama’s request to keep its map was the second time in under a year that it had asked the Supreme Court to affirm a limited role of race in establishing voting districts for federal elections in what amounted to a defiant repudiation of lower-court rulings. In the latest twist in the case, the lower court had found that the state had brazenly flouted its directive to create a second majority-Black district or something “close to it.”
The court’s order gave no reasons, which is often the case when the justices decide on emergency applications. The ruling clears the way for a special master and court-appointed cartographer to create a new map.
The outcome of the dispute could ultimately tip the balance of the House, where Republicans hold a thin majority. The trajectory of the case is also being closely watched by lawmakers in Washington and other states where similar battles are playing out.
In a surprise decision in June, the Supreme Court found that Alabama had hurt Black voters in drawing its voting map, reaffirming part of a landmark civil rights law.
Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., who has long been skeptical of race-conscious decision making, wrote the majority opinion. Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh joined him, along with the courts three liberal justices — Ketanji Brown Jackson, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan.
At issue was Alabama’s congressional map. Its Republican-controlled legislature sliced up the state into seven districts, continuing to maintain only one majority Black district, although about a quarter of state’s population is Black.
After the Supreme Court’s decision, state lawmakers scrambled to draw a new map. Over the objections of Democrats, the legislature pushed through a version that changed district boundaries but that did not include an additional majority-Black district. Instead, it increased the percentage of Black voters in one district to about 40 percent, from about 30 percent.
The federal three-judge panel overseeing the case found lawmakers had, yet again, likely violated the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
“The law requires the creation of an additional district that affords Black Alabamians, like everyone else, a fair and reasonable opportunity to elect candidates of their choice,” the panel wrote. The judges added that the Legislature’s proposal “plainly fails to do so.”
In asking the Supreme Court to intervene, Alabama’s attorney general, Steve Marshall, acknowledged that the Legislature had not added a second majority-Black district to its map as dictated by the federal court, but said its new map still complied with the law.
Unless the court acted, he wrote, “the state will have no meaningful opportunity to appeal before the 2023 plan is replaced by a court-drawn map that no state could constitutionally enact.”
In their brief, the plaintiffs, including a group of Black voters and advocacy organizations, urged the justices to reject Alabama’s request for relief and said the state had “unabashedly” sought to defy the courts using “recycled arguments.”
After the Supreme Court’s decision in June, the plaintiffs wrote, Alabama’s Legislature had drawn its plan in secret, with no opportunity for public comment, and had enacted it “over alternative plans that were supported by Black Alabamians.”
“Disagreement with this court’s ruling is not a valid reason to defy it — and certainly not a basis for a grant of an emergency stay application,” they wrote.
Marc Elias (@marcelias@mas.to)
If you live in one of these 20 states, your Republican Attorney General is trying to eviscerate private enforcement of the Voting Right Act in court. AL, AR, AK, FL, GA, ID, IN, KS, KY, LA, MS, MO, MT, ND, NE, OK, SC, TX, UT, WV
