Alabama
Alabama Republicans Think the Supreme Court Is Partisan | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP
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Google-News-Wire
- September 14, 2023
- Alabama
- alabama republicans
- Alabama’s original actions
- black voters
- Chief Justice John Roberts
- conservative legal movement
- Court
- Court’s liberal critics
- defiance of a direct Supreme Court order
- district court
- Donald Trump’s allies
- driving force
- federal court
- Great Society
- high court
- independent institution
- judicial independence
- Judicial philosophies
- Justice Amy Coney Barrett
- Justice Brett Kavanaugh
- Justice Clarence Thomas
- Justice Samuel Alito
- little time
- long history of American political parties
- lower-court ruling
- majority-minority districts
- map of congressional districts
- media coverage
- necessity of the Voting Rights Act
- odes
- original decision
- particular case
- partisan hacks
- personal preference
- political actors
- political parties
- Republican-appointed Supreme Court justices
- right-wing institutions
- Roberts Court’s long record
- rule of law
- second likely Democratic seat
- second time
- state
- supreme court
- Supreme Court decision
- voting power of ethnic minorities
- voting rights act
- Voting Rights Act case
- voting-age majority
- wealthy conservative donors
To hear the Republican-appointed Supreme Court justices tell it, they are not partisan hacks. And it is unfair for anyone to suggest otherwise. “This Court is not comprised of a bunch of partisan hacks,” Justice Amy Coney Barrett insisted in a 2021 speech at the University of Louisville’s McConnell Center, named after Senator Mitch McConnell. […]
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Alabama
Alabama Is Defying the Supreme Court on Voting Rights | #elections | #alabama
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Google-News-Wire
- July 28, 2023
- additional Black-majority
- Alabama
- backstop legislature
- black voters
- congressional districts
- conservative complaints
- conservative justices
- conservative movement
- conservative-dominated Court’s directive
- Court
- Court’s liberal critics
- coziness of the Republican-appointed justices
- free market
- free speech
- fundamental freedoms
- john roberts
- John Roberts’s long gameAll
- law of the land
- legal martyr
- liberal criticism of the Court
- liberal majority
- liberals
- majority-minority populations
- Matt Ford
- midst of a conservative campaign
- open challenge
- partisan motive
- political campaign
- political control
- political donors
- political strength of a critique of the Court
- quarter of Alabama
- Racial discrimination
- right wing
- right’s view
- Roberts Court’s defenders
- rule of law
- single district
- southern states
- state’s Republican majority
- substantive public criticism
- supreme court
- Supreme Court order
- supreme court ruling
- Supreme Court rulings
- verbal criticism of powerful institutions
- voting rights act
- Wall Street Journal
- Wall Street Journal’s editorial page
- Yellowhammer State’s Republican-controlled legislature
Supreme Court rulings are meant to be the law of the land, but Alabama is taking its recent opinion on the Voting Rights Act as a mere recommendation. In an echo of mid-century southern defiance of school desegregation, the Yellowhammer State’s Republican-controlled legislature defied the conservative-dominated Court’s directive to redraw its congressional map with an […]
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