The GOP-drawn map will be used in the 2022 election. And the high court, which agreed to hear the Republican appeal, likely won't hear oral arguments in the case until its new term begins in the fall.
"Black voters have less opportunity than other Alabamians to elect candidates of their choice to Congress," the lower court judges had written.will be used in the 2022 election. And the high court, which agreed to hear the Republican appeal, likely won't hear oral arguments in the case until its new term begins in the fall.
"Late judicial tinkering with election laws can lead to disruption and to unanticipated and unfair consequences for candidates, political parties, and voters, among others," Kavanaugh wrote."Accepting Alabama’s contentions would rewrite decades of this Court’s precedent about Section 2 of the VRA," Justice Elena Kagan wrote in the dissent joined Justices Stephen Breyer and Sonia Sotomayor.Citing "considerable disagreement and uncertainty regarding the ...
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