Supreme Court Allows Alabama to Use Congressional Map Favoring Republicans in This Year's Elections

Thursday, June 04, 2026

The Supreme Court blocks lower court ruling clearing the way for Alabama to use in the upcoming election a newly drawn congressional map which intentionally discriminates against Black people.

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Justice Sonia Sotomayor blasted the court's conservative majority for a ruling that "debases the democratic process" by allowing Alabama to use a congressional map that the justices had previously found intentionally discriminated against Black voters. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/ ...

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-- Marc Elias (@marcelias.bsky.social) 11:18 AM Â· Jun 3, 2026

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Oh boy. Roberts is gonna be big mad when he finds out this makes his court look like a political tool run by partisan judges.

#1 | Posted by jpw at 2026-06-04 09:01 AM | Reply

Yeah and they already ruled on this issue before some other dumb judge tried to block the map. Ruling they already made reconfirmed.

#2 | Posted by THEBULL at 2026-06-04 09:16 AM | Reply

The SCOTUS is in Trump's Pocket.

It's all over for American "Democracy".

Unelected Partisan Stooges make America open for Whatever The Richest People want.

Albania on the Potomac.

#3 | Posted by Effeteposer at 2026-06-04 10:44 AM | Reply

"which intentionally discriminates against Black people"

No, it doesn't. If you look at these districts being replaced on a map, it looks like a 2-snake boogie going on. They were purposefully engineered to give a solid block vote to people of a certain color. It's way past time for preferential treatment of certain groups of people when others are paying the same (or more) of the tax burden. Colleges, grants, civil service, etc... it's time for it to stop and this SCOTUS is hacking away at it.

#4 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2026-06-04 11:54 AM | Reply

"You start out in 1954 by saying, "Nigger, nigger, nigger." By 1968 you can't say "nigger""that hurts you, backfires. So you say stuff like, uh, forced busing, states' rights, and all that stuff, and you're getting so abstract. Now, you're talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you're talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is, blacks get hurt worse than whites. ... "We want to cut this," is much more abstract than even the busing thing, uh, and a hell of a lot more abstract than "Nigger, nigger.""
-Lee Atwater, 1981

It's not racism, it's partisan gerrymandering...which is now somehow a key state interest!

#5 | Posted by Sycophant at 2026-06-04 05:41 PM | Reply

By 1968 you can't say "nigger" -- that hurts you, backfires.

IT's a shame Ol' Guitar Pluckin' Lee Atwater ain't here to see it!

Because in the 2020s, people started saying the N word on Twitter like, five times more than before, when White Nationalists bought Twitter.

It doesn't backfire any more.

Calling our President "America's Hitler" gets you the VP role!

#6 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-06-04 05:45 PM | Reply