Federal Court Temporarily Blocks Alabama’s New Congressional Map
“Ultimately, we cannot see our way clear to requiring Alabamians to cast their votes in the 2026 elections under a districting plan tainted by intentional race-based discrimination.”
The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama – Southern Division issued a preliminary injunction against the state’s new Congressional map.
The Supreme Court remanded the case back to the lower court “for consideration in light of Louisiana v. Callais.”
Alabama went to SCOTUS after the ruling in the Louisiana case, in which SCOTUS reminded everyone that you cannot use race as a factor in drawing a congressional district.
The district court’s ruling required Alabama to have two black congressional districts, similar to the Louisiana case.
Did the court listen? Nope:
After that exacting review, we conclude that a preliminary injunction must issue. Ultimately, we cannot see our way clear to requiring Alabamians to cast their votes in the 2026 elections under a districting plan tainted by intentional race-based discrimination. And under the unusual circumstances of this case, we conclude that a limited order requiring the Secretary to continue using this Court’s race-blind map will not disrupt Alabama’s elections (all candidates ran under the race blind map until fifteen days ago, and all voters remain districted under the race-blind map in electoral computer systems).
The court insisted that Alabama purposely “diluted” the black vote:
We again cannot understand the 2023 Plan as anything other than intentionally discriminatory. When the Legislature enacted the 2023 Plan, it made a calculated, purposeful decision to refuse to provide the remedy for discriminatory vote dilution that our order (affirmed by the Supreme Court) required. The Legislature well knew that a plan without an additional Black-opportunity district would dilute Black Alabamians’ opportunity to participate in the political process, and it intentionally enacted that very plan. Further, the Legislature well knew what dilutive mechanisms would prevent Black voters in Alabama’s Black Belt and Gulf Coast communities.
The court also claimed that public statements from legislators are evidence that the state used raced to redraw the map.
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This is the result of the SCOTUS failing to slap down district court judges when they clearly and deliberately ignore SCOTUS precedent. “Doing their own thing” is one significant thing many of our black robed masters have taken to engaging in while in the age of TDS.
What exactly would a slapping down entai?. A strongly worded letter. Unless they are fired or suspended or fined or jailed it is meaningless.
Yes, instead of waiting for Roberts to stick his finger into the wind, how about the DOJ start taking action on judges that defy the law?
Actually SCOTUS has no way to “slap down” the lower courts. Congress has control of the Judiciary below SCOTUS. The House can impeach and the Senate can remove Judges.
They don’t care what SCOTUS says.
The leftist in a black robe knows that he just needs to stall and Alabama has to use the current map for this cycle, and the only thing that happens is SCOTUS tells him to stop. But he won’t care, he won and stole 2 seats for his Democrat masters.
A wide swath of the leftosphere has the impression that a black person is disinfranchised if they cannot have their vote aggregated with other black people.
Callais addressed this indirectly. But apparently SCOTUS needs to smack that notion down directly.
If you are able to cast a ballot and your ballot has been counted (or fails to be counted according to some legal rule) then you have been franchised. Skin color can play zero role whatsoever.
Exactly. America’s minority voters have exactly the same rights as its white voters.
No. They have more rights because of systematic racism and ongoing repression. I know because I read that somewhere,
Both Carnac the Magnificent and Miss Cleo predict the USSC will do the necessary tossing of this panel’s injunction. “Why would we allow, or force, a state to use a map where race was expressly used as the basis for its creation. We just ruled states can’t use race as a measure.”
The only logical thing is for states to start ignoring district judges.
the left loves this as anything to get the tribes into harsher more fighting mode
the rhetoric from the left is picking up in its call to violence against the maga who they claim are shutting them out from the ability to vote
If the Supreme Court doesn’t slap them silly they will have lost ALL authority
Let’s see if Roberts has any balls left
Roberts will decide it is a tax.
IMPEACH JOHN ROBERTS!
Is there a viable remedy?
Can SCOTUS hold a lower court’s judges in contempt?
Alabama could refuse to conduct an election on the basis that doing so under the current map would be unlawful for their having an unconstitutional districting map. Or they could use a new map, and plead that to do otherwise would be unlawful, using the doctrine of competing harms (they can use an unlawful map or they can ignore the district court). (Arguably, because the current map is known to not be in compliance with the most recently decided law on the situation, ignoring the lower court wouldn’t be a “wrong,” because the lower court is enforcing the use of a map already known to be unlawful.)
That was the reason for the redistrict. To get rid of the map that was tainted with racial discrimination.
As predicted. #Resistance judges believe they are the law all by themselves.
Don’t be surprised if something similar happens in Virginia, where the Communist legislature goes ahead with the Congressional map they illegally drew even though their own state Supreme Court told them not to.
The Judges have been led to belief that are the law unto themselves for the simple reason that we all have been genuflecting before them for decades.
District judge trying to run out the clock. He know it will get overturned, but perhaps not in time for the election.
the left has a solution:
just form one big party and dictate to people
what they can
eat
wear
study
observe
speak of..out against
hmmm
sounds strangely current
Appeal?
which takes time and could not be done in time for the election,…maybe?
The election is fubar anyway. The primary was the 19th. Old districts on ballot but not counted as they were invalidated by Legislature in favor of new districts with an election on only new districts held TBD.
In sum there isn’t any worry about new map v old map drama interference with primary b/c it already did. Bama will likely file emergency appeal to SCOTUS and SCOTUS will either back up their ruling in Callais that districts can’t be drawn for racial reasons (to advantage or.disadvantage) or they will do what they’ve done with 2A issues and allow District and Circuit CTs to weaken/ignore/deviate from their decision in Bruen.
I think it’s a hoot that they think all blacks are alike, and the blacks are OK with that.
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