Lawyers representing Black voters in the state predict federal courts will ultimately have to redraw the maps.
to creating a second district with a majority of Black voters “without violating the Constitution.” Adhering strictly to the previous court order, they tried to suggest, would be a racial gerrymander in itself.Abha Khanna, an attorney representing voters in the state who said the maps were a racial gerrymander,The state legislature chose to “thumb its nose at this court and to thumb its nose at the nation’s highest court and to thumb its nose at its own Black citizens,” Khanna added.
Deuel Ross, another lawyer representing Alabama’s Black voters in the case, said the judges’ questions toward the state’s lawyers indicated that the court itself will likely have to redraw the maps for the state. “Our expectation is that the trial court will strike down the new map, and that if Alabama appeals to the Supreme Court … the Supreme Court will have the same result that it had just a couple months ago,”Ross harangued the state’s Republican lawmakers for refusing to follow what the Supreme Court had told them to do..” Did Alabama draw a new opportunity district as the court required them to do? The answer is they did not.
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