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“Alabama’s defiance is striking and nearly unprecedented in this country’s history. A recent report offers important color and context,” said Alex Aronson, a judicial accountability advocate and former chief counsel to US Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse. “This is not an organic development. Legislators are not acting or making strategy independently. There is a billion-dollar force which has been entrenched in the judiciary. About $600 million has been spent to control the composition of the court.”
By Barrington M. Salmon, NNPA Newswire Contributor Last week, a trio of federal judges chose a new congressional map for Alabama after almost two years of protracted skirmishes in state, federal and US Supreme courts. Plaintiffs, including the NAACP, ACLU, Shalela Dowdy and Evan Milligan, had filed suit to challenge a new congressional district map
cold water on this idea and it s stated clearly that legislatures do not have the power to make unilateral decisions regarding federal elections. bad news for state legislators who want to have total control over american democracy. this decision comes up from the supreme court earlier this month stepped back from the brink of totally gutting section two of the landmark 1965 voting rights act. that ruling held at a congressional map drawn by alabama republicans and denied black voters a reasonable chance to elect a representative of their choice. in what can only be seen as an immediate effect of that earlier alabama decision, yesterday the, supreme court dismissed an appeal coming from louisiana that would have diluted the power of black voters. okay, given the recent, very controversial and conservative rulings of this current supreme court, like, overturning roe v. wade, you may be wondering, what exactly is happening over there on the roberts court? writing is like today, mark
over american democracy. this decision comes after the supreme court earlier this month stepped back from the brink of totally gutting section two of the landmark 1965 voting rights act. that ruling held that a congressional map drawn by alabama republicans and denied black voters a reasonable chance to elect a representative of their choice. in what can only be seen as an immediate effect of that earlier alabama decision, yesterday the supreme court dismissed an appeal coming from louisiana that would have diluted the power of black voters. okay, given the recent, very controversial and conservative rulings of this current supreme court, like, overturning roe v. wade, you may be wondering, what exactly is happening over there on the roberts court? writing in slate today, mark joseph stern writes that the more v. harper ruling, one smacking down the lacking independent state legislator theory is a paradigm attic example of the course example this term. republican litigants come forward