Judges strike down Alabama’s latest nullification of federal law
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Two of the three judges on the panel are Trump-nominated judges, too:
A panel of federal judges rejected Alabama’s latest congressional map on Tuesday, ruling that a new map needed to be drawn because Republican lawmakers had failed to comply with orders to create a second majority-Black district or something “close to it.”
In a sharp rebuke, the judges ordered that the new map be independently drawn, taking the responsibility away from the Republican-controlled legislature while chastising state officials who “ultimately did not even nurture the ambition to provide the required remedy.”
The legislature had hastily pushed through a revised map in July after a surprise Supreme Court ruling found that Alabama’s existing map violated a landmark civil rights law by undercutting the power of the state’s Black voters. The revised map, approved over the objections of Democrats, increased the percentage of Black voters in one of the state’s six majority-white congressional districts to about 40 percent, from about 30 percent.
In its new ruling, the three-judge panel in Alabama found that the legislature had flouted its mandate under the court’s ruling.
The question now is whether the Supreme Court will actually forcefully back up its own ruling, or whether Brett Kavanaugh will let Alabama run out the clock and run the 2024 election with illegal maps. I can’t say I’m super-optimistic but we’ll see.