Ruling against Alabama congressional maps could send Georgia lawmakers back to drawing board | #elections | #alabama
This story was updated at 11 a.m. Friday, June 9, 2023. A U.S. Supreme Court ruling rejecting Alabama’s voting map will influence the outcome of pending lawsuits challenging district lines drawn in late 2021 here in Georgia. The 5-4 opinion released Thursday morning offered a surprise blow to the GOP-created congressional maps in Alabama, which […]
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The Decision That Could End Voting Rights | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP
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- November 23, 2023
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A federal court’s opinion yesterday could render the Voting Rights Act meaningless, if the Supreme Court upholds it. Robert Abbott Sengstacke / Getty November 21, 2023, 9:32 AM ET The right to vote free of racial discrimination was won by blood and sacrifice, those of both the soldiers who fought to preserve the Union and […]
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Alabama Republicans Think the Supreme Court Is Partisan | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP
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- September 14, 2023
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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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