The federal court did not say Alabama drew the wrong lines. It said Alabama intentionally discriminated against Black voters, violated the 14th Amendment, and likely violated Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act. The 2025 ruling called the Section 2 claim "not a close call."
Alabama lost. Drew a new map. Lost again. Now it has asked the Supreme Court to block the federal court ruling entirely - which would eliminate the second majority-Black congressional district and remove Rep. Shomari Figures from a seat he won under the court-ordered map.
This is the pattern Hardy is describing and it is worth stating plainly. Alabama was told its map was an intentional racial gerrymander. It drew another one. It was told that map also violated federal law. It appealed to the highest court in the land asking to use the illegal map anyway.
The question before the Supreme Court is not really about district lines. It is about whether a state can be found in intentional violation of the 14th Amendment, lose in court repeatedly, and still prevail through sheer institutional defiance while the legal process runs out the clock on another election cycle.
Selma is not a metaphor. It is a geographic fact. The Edmund Pettus Bridge is still there. The people who marched across it in 1965 were beaten because they wanted the right to vote. The fight Anneshia Hardy is describing in 2026 is not distant from that history. It is continuous with it. Same state. Same question. Different mechanism.
The logic here is just so laughable. All of this was literally litigated in Allan V Milligan!!!! And the supreme court just said “just kidding we’re overturning ourselves!” They once again prove they have 0 legitimacy.
Now we know: Today is the day the SCOTUS took the remaining life out of the VRA. Despite the clearest evidence of intentional race discrimination by AL — that two conservative justices credited, the Court now rewards a state that openly defied a court order. Cold work.
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Source: HuffPost
Youngkin literally tried to ram donors and political allies as picks onto almost every Board of Visitors for every Virginia-based university throughout his term, especially the final year.
what are you talking about?