Why Brett Kavanaugh seems unlikely to take the bait.
It will be dead on arrival—as Republican legislators must realize. It seems, then, that these lawmakers hope the Supreme Court will decline to enforce a ruling that is barely a month old. Like Louisiana Republicans, who are currentlya similar tactic over a similar racial gerrymander, Alabama legislators think the Supreme Court may walk back its newfound commitment to the Voting Rights Act.
After the 2020 census, the state Legislature enacted a brazen racial gerrymander designed to dilute the votes of racial minorities. It carved up Alabama’s two majority-Black regions, Montgomery and the Black Belt, distributing voters of color into majority-white districts where they would hold little political influence. The Legislature then crammed remaining voters of color into a single majority-Black district.
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