Looming ‘Merrill v. Milligan’ Supreme Court decision could affect future election procedures | #elections | #alabama
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (WAFF) – Midterm elections are days away but when it comes to future elections a looming Supreme Court decision could have some effect on them. Merrill v. Milligan would be the second Alabama case decision impacting voting procedures, the first being Shelby v. Holder, in 2013. The Shelby v. Holder decision allows certain […]
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Looming ‘Merrill v. Milligan’ Supreme Court decision could affect future election procedures | #elections | #alabama
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (WAFF) – Midterm elections are days away but when it comes to future elections a looming Supreme Court decision could have some effect on them. Merrill v. Milligan would be the second Alabama case decision impacting voting procedures, the first being Shelby v. Holder, in 2013. The Shelby v. Holder decision allows certain […]
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Looming ‘Merrill v. Milligan’ Supreme Court decision could affect future election procedures | #elections | #alabama
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (WAFF) – Midterm elections are days away but when it comes to future elections a looming Supreme Court decision could have some effect on them. Merrill v. Milligan would be the second Alabama case decision impacting voting procedures, the first being Shelby v. Holder, in 2013. The Shelby v. Holder decision allows certain […]
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Looming ‘Merrill v Milligan’ decision could affect future election procedures like previous Supreme Court decision | #elections | #alabama
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (WAFF) – Midterm elections are days away, but a looming Supreme Court decision could impact future elections. Merrill v Milligan would be the second Alabama case decision impacting voting procedures, the first being Shelby v Holder, back in 2013. Merrill v Milligan is based on Alabama’s Congressional district maps that had been ruled […]
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Why US Courts Are Allowing Voters in 4 States to Use Rejected Congressional Maps | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP
washington — When midterm elections get under way next month, voters in several Republican-controlled states will be casting their ballots in congressional districts with borders that courts have rejected. In Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana and Ohio, the congressional maps were drawn by Republican legislators in the aftermath of the 2020 census. Judges later ruled that the […]
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Why US Courts Are Allowing Voters in 4 States to Use Rejected Congressional Maps | #elections | #alabama
washington — When midterm elections get under way next month, voters in several Republican-controlled states will be casting their ballots in congressional districts with borders that courts have rejected. In Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana and Ohio, the congressional maps were drawn by Republican legislators in the aftermath of the 2020 census. Judges later ruled that the […]
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Alabama case that could limit Voting Rights Act heard at U.S. Supreme Court | #elections | #alabama
WASHINGTON — U.S. Supreme Court justices on Tuesday heard oral arguments in a case that challenges an Alabama redistricting map and could potentially eliminate remaining federal safeguards against racial gerrymandering. Voting rights advocates fear that the high court’s conservative majority will further weaken the Voting Rights Act, with implications for voters in states across the […]
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Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson Will Rule On Important Cases for Black Folks | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson smiles following her formal investiture ceremony at the Supreme Court in Washington, Friday, Sept. 30, 2022.Photo: J. Scott Applewhite (AP) For the first time, the U.S. Supreme Court is in session with a Black woman on the bench. Unfortunately, the docket of cases that Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson will vote on […]
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Supreme Court to revisit whether Alabama legislature violated Voting Rights Act | #elections | #alabama
The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in Merrill v. Milligan on Tuesday, a case over whether Alabama’s 2021 congressional redistricting map violates the Voting Rights Act. A federal judge in January ordered the state to draw a new map that includes two majority-black districts, holding that the state’s original plan, which only held one […]
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Supreme Court handing GOP seven congressional seats it otherwise wouldn’t have – People’s World | #elections | #alabama
Democratic State Sen. Rodger Smitherman compares U.S. Representative district maps during the special session on redistricting at the Alabama Statehouse in Montgomery, Ala., on Nov. 3, 2021. The Supreme Court has put on hold a lower court ruling that Alabama must draw new congressional districts before the 2022 elections, boosting Republican chances to hold six […]
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