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Allen v. Milligan

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the map for failing to meet the two black-majority district requirement set by the prior litigation. Ivey stated "The Legislature knows our state, our people, and our districts better than the federal courts or activist groups, and I am pleased that they answered the call, remained focused, and produced new districts ahead of the court deadline." The new map had to be approved by the district court. The district court rejected the new maps on September 5, 2023, ruling that they were "deeply troubled" by the legislature's failure to follow the court order, and assigned a
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By July 2023, the Alabama legislature created a new redistricting map that had only one black-majority district, while raising the proportion of blacks of voting age in a second district. This map was approved by Alabama Governor Kay Ivey on July 21, 2023. Democratic lawmakers in the state criticized
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Several lawsuits were filed against Georgia to challenge congressional and state legislative maps under Section 2. The congressional map cases largely argue for another minority-opportunity district in the Metro Atlanta region. The Northern District ruled in October 2023 that the Georgia legislature
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On September 28, the Fifth Circuit ordered the district court to cancel proceedings for redrawing the congressional map in a 2-1 decision, siding with the Defendant Louisiana Secretary of State that the district court did not allow them enough time to draw a VRA-compliant map, and rejected a request
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On June 12, 2023, the Supreme Court formally lifted their stay on the district court's decision. On June 15, the Alabama Attorney General's office informed the District Court for the Northern District of Alabama that the Legislature would draft and pass a new congressional district map by July 21 in
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State attorney general Steve Marshall had filed for an emergency stay of the rejection of the legislature's revised maps to the U.S. Supreme Court, but the Court denied the request on September 26, 2023. Marshall then dismissed the state's remaining appeal to the Supreme Court against the district
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under Section 2. The Northern District ruled in favor of the plaintiffs, ordering that the elections for two seats on the GAPSC be postponed until the election method is changed. An appeal was filed by the state to the 11th Circuit, where litigation continues; an emergency stay of the Northern
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On June 26, 2023, The Supreme Court dismissed Louisiana's appeal and declined to hear the case themselves, thus paving the way for the matter to be resolved in the lower courts 'in advance of the 2024 elections.' It raised the likelihood that Louisiana will have to draw a second majority-black
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to redraw new districts. The special master submitted three options for redistricting that includes the required two black-majority districts by September 25, 2023, to be reviewed by the three-judge panel. The judges' panel selected one of these for their approval on October 5, 2023.
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At the time of the decision, several other federal court cases across 10 states, including South Carolina and Texas, argued against congressional, legislative, and other district maps as violating Section 2. Stays were issued in several of these cases prior to the
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by the plaintiffs to delay their order. The plaintiffs subsequently filed an appeal to the Supreme Court against the Fifth Circuit's order. The Supreme Court declined to reverse the Fifth Circuit's order, though as written by Justice
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must redraw the congressional and legislative maps to support the minority-opportunity district in Metro Atlanta by December 9, 2023, or else the court will draw such maps. The same day, a special session was called by Governor
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a special session. The defendants had previously asserted that any map must be in place by October 1, a month prior to Alabama's candidate filing deadline on November 10 for the 2024 general elections.
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The Supreme Court stayed the district court's injunctions in an order issued on February 7, 2022. The order stated that there was probable jurisdiction from the district court's order in
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modified the existing districts to account for shifts in population. Soon after, multiple groups of plaintiffs sued, asserting the districts violated Section 2 of the
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the state, which petitioned the Supreme Court for emergency relief in order to stay the Robinson case, argued that the Robinson case depended on the same grounds as
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Plaintiffs demonstrated a reasonable likelihood of success on their claim that Alabama's redistricting plan violates Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
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petitioned the Supreme Court to hear in full their appeal of the Robinson case, arguing that "facts alone also suitably distinguish the Court's decision" from
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showed that while the state did not gain or lose any representation at the federal level, the racial diversity in the state had increased, with the portion of
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court's order on September 29, while the state's lawyers argued to the district court that the special master's proposed maps were racial gerrymanders.
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Whether the State of Alabama's 2021 redistricting plan for its seven seats in the United States House of Representatives violated Section 2 of the
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residents having fallen from 68% to 64% over the prior ten years, while Alabama's Black population grew by 3.8 percent over the same period.
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decision, the Robinson Respondents represented by LDF and the ACLU filed a motion to lift the stay. On June 14, Louisiana Attorney General
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On June 8, 2023, the Supreme Court affirmed the district court and held Alabama's map likely violated the Voting Rights Act. Chief Justice
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dissented, stating "Today's decision is one more in a disconcertingly long line of cases in which this Court uses its
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District's order was granted by the 11th Circuit but was then vacated by the U.S. Supreme Court in August 2022.
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to signal or make changes in the law, without anything approaching full briefing and argument." Chief Justice
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district maps under Section 2 of the VRA and challenging both legislative chambers' district maps under the
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delivered the opinion of the court, except for Part III-B-1. His opinion was joined in whole by Justices
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agreed on a new congressional map that added a second district with a black majority, stretching from
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maps under Section 2 of the VRA. The case challenging the district map of the State Supreme Court,
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On June 28, 2022, the Supreme Court of the United States granted certiorari and a stay in the case
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also wrote a dissent to the order to grant a stay, but agreed the Court should review the case.
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voters. The Court ruled 5–4 that Alabama's districts likely violated the VRA, maintained an
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In addition, other active cases filed against Louisiana targeted the state legislative and
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Roberts (except as to Part III–B–1), joined by Sotomayor, Kagan, Kavanaugh, Jackson
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Thomas, joined by Gorsuch; Alito (Parts II–A and II–B); Barrett (Parts II and III)
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October 2023 Speaker of the United States House of Representatives election
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Arizona State Legislature v. Arizona Independent Redistricting Commission
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Wes Allen, Alabama Secretary of State, et al. v. Marcus Caster, et al.
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The new congressional districts map chosen by the district court
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as Alabama Secretary of State. However, the case was argued as
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have had roughly the same configuration since 1993, with one
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Roberts (Part III–B–1), joined by Sotomayor, Kagan, Jackson
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Alexander v. South Carolina State Conference of the NAACP
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Houston Lawyers' Association v. Attorney General of Texas
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Alexander v. South Carolina State Conference of the NAACP
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Wisconsin Legislature v. Wisconsin Elections Commission
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Governor Landry signed the map into law on January 22.
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Harris v. Arizona Independent Redistricting Commission
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congressional district, pending any decision by the
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District Court for the Northern District of Alabama
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Index

Merrill v. Milligan
Supreme Court of the United States
Wes Allen
Alabama Secretary of State
21-1086
21-1087
U.S.
more
Oral argument
Opinion announcement
Opinion
Voting Rights Act
52 U.S.C.
§ 10301
District Court for the Northern District of Alabama
John Roberts
Clarence Thomas
Samuel Alito
Sonia Sotomayor
Elena Kagan
Neil Gorsuch
Brett Kavanaugh
Amy Coney Barrett
Ketanji Brown Jackson
Voting Rights Act of 1965
United States Supreme Court
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Alabama's congressional districts
African-American
injunction

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