Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Brett Kavanaugh joined the court’s four liberals in affirming a lower court’s ruling that Alabama’s current congressional map “likely …
not purposely made to discriminate do not violate the act, even if it is effects are discriminative in practice.
The chief justice cited case law that found a voting district “is not equally open … when minority voters face—unlike their majority peers—bloc voting along racial lines, arising against the backdrop of substantial racial discrimination within the State, that renders a minority vote unequal to a vote by a nonminority voter.”
Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Brett Kavanaugh joined the Supreme Court’s liberal members in the Merrill v. Milligan ruling.Roberts was unimpressed, writing: “Alabama’s insistent reliance on that number, however powerful it may sound in the abstract, is thus close to irrelevant in practice. What would the next million maps show? The next billion? The first trillion of the trillion trillions? Answerless questions all.
Alabama Republican Party Chairman John Wahl said in a statement that state lawmakers would comply with the ruling.
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