Opinion by By Melissa Murray and Steve Vladeck: The court's decision in the Alabama redistricting case must be considered in the broader context.
, the court eviscerated the law’s preclearance regime, which required states with a history of voting discrimination to first “pre-clear” any changes to their voting rules with the Justice Department or a three-judge federal court panel. The decision led to an uptick in laws that appear to seek to suppress the vote among certain constituencies, such asChief Justice John G. Roberts Jr.
The court made its antipathy toward voting rights even more clear in how it handled the case. At the heart of the controversy was the congressional map that Alabama drew in 2021 in response to the 2020 Census. Though roughly 2 in 7 Alabamians are Black, the state’s legislature packed most of the state’s Black voters into
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