Dana El-Kurd
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first heard Mar 2026
last heard 30 May
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against the backdrop of the legislature's knowledge, compels us to conclude that the legislature doubled down on racially discriminatory vote dilution after we and the Supreme Court found that it was racially discriminatory vote dilution.
The same evidence leaves us no room to conclude that when the legislature did all this, it had party politics in mind.
The only available intent evidence tells us that consideration of race were the key reason, unquote.
So the court ordered Alabama to use the alternative court-ordered map already used in the 2024 election for the rest of Alabama's 2026 congressional elections, after which the legislature can then create a new congressional district plan.
And of course, the state of Alabama has already appealed this to the Supreme Court, and we will wait and see if they decide to hear this case.
Yeah, this will continue to be a thing we're going to have to report on, we should say, for some time, right?
Yes.
This is going to result in massive changes.
Yeah, we will continue to cover them, I guess.
It is interesting that this is the first time I've seen a court really like interpret the Louisiana ruling for like another case to a, this is like an over 70 page like ruling.
Yeah.
And they discuss like where the Louisiana case does apply and where it doesn't and what it means to quote unquote consider race in the evaluation of these districts.
And it would be interesting, you know, if the Supreme Court decides to hear this, if they're going to affirm this court's interpretation of their ruling or if they're going to say, no, you got it wrong and strike down their interpretation.
But, you know, right now they did really outline like what it means to use race in reference to these districts and how it cannot be used in the drawing of the district.
Right.
but that it can be considered to make sure that it complies with the Voting Rights Act.
And that does not mean that it was used as a instrument in the actual drawing of the district.
And I think that specificity is an interesting part of the new ruling.
I think like, it's just like any other Supreme Court
decision, right?
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