Dana El-Kurd
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The other two district judges were appointed by Trump.
And this exact same three-judge panel had already found this exact same map to be intentionally racially discriminatory years ago.
This new district court order also rejects the state's claims that the 2023 map was just drawn with partisan, not racial intent.
Writing, quote, the purpose of the 2023 plan was to distribute Black voters across districts...
to dilute their votes, at least in part because they are black, unquote.
This latest ruling is part of a specific redistricting battle that has stretched on for five years, with Republican maps being repeatedly struck down, appealed, redrawn, and struck down again.
Now, I've seen some confusion on the exact series of events here, like what the Supreme Court has ruled on, which maps are being used.
So I want to just briefly go over the sequence of events as I understand it.
In 2021, a district court ruled that a new map drawn after the 2020 census likely violated Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act.
The Supreme Court upheld this decision in 2023, barring the use of this 2021 map.
After the Supreme Court decision, the Alabama legislature adopted a new map in 2023.
But a federal court again found that this newer 2023 map also likely violated Section 2.
And the Supreme Court let a ban on the use of this map go through by declining to block the order.
But they did not rule on the map itself.
So the court appointed a special master to draw a new Alabama house map to use going forward.
In 2025, following a trial, the district court officially ruled that Alabama's 2023 congressional map did in fact violate Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act.
Finding the map was, quote, an intentional effort to dilute black Alabamans' voting strength and evade the unambiguous requirements of court orders standing in the way, unquote.
Importantly, the Supreme Court had yet to rule on the actual 2023 map itself.
After the district court's ruling in 2025, Alabama did appeal to the Supreme Court, but they delayed consideration until after the Louisiana case.
As we know, that ruling effectively nullified much of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, establishing that intent of racial discrimination must be shown, not just discrimination as an effect in the drawing of voting districts.
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