Originally published at: Alabama Blocked from Using SCOTUS-Cleared Map ‘Tainted By Intentional Race-Based Discrimination’ - TPM – Talking Points Memo
A panel of lower court judges issued a preliminary injunction Tuesday blocking Alabama from using a map it had previously found to be unconstitutional. “Ultimately, we cannot see our way clear to requiring Alabamians to cast theirvotes in the 2026 elections under a districting plan tainted by intentional race-baseddiscrimination,” the judges wrote. The Supreme Court…
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Frist!
Glad thee are still some judges who will uphold Democracy.
Alito will block this in 3, 2, 1, …
Obligatory cat:
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Another Confederate state steals an election in the name of White Jesus. Using the churches that facilitated slavery and Jim Crow, and high on Pentagon theft.
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Shadow docket, here we come!
Qui male agit, odit lucem.
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The Supreme Court will say the lower court decision was made too close to the election.
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Yes! Make Them Do It. If SCOTUS wants to be a council of guardians rescuing us from the errors of our elected representatives, then make them explicitly put their fingerprints on it each time. Force them to be explicit about their desire to reimpose Jim Crow.
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Remarkable. Only had a chance to skim it so far and it’s a lot to untangle.
Manasco and Moorer are Trump appointees…Marcus is Reagan/Clinton.
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Don’t worry all racists reading this.
Alabama’s governmental intellectual capacity will work hard figuring out a workaround.
It’s the most important thing to the NeoConfederacy.
They have convinced themselves it’s what Jesus would do, too.
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“Nearly” always to the electoral benefit of Republicans? Show me the counter-example for the application of Purcell.
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We may get one in this case haha. Didn’t Alabama just argue a couple weeks ago that it’s not too late for redistricting and Purcell doesn’t apply? Will we now get treated to them arguing that it’s too late and Purcell should apply to THIS ruling? They’re nothing if not consistent in their inconsistency…
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i already voted by mail for the primary next week and got my receipt back from the County BoE. i even use their drop box at the town hall, not trusting the USPS.
All the Democrats were running unopposed, but I voted anyway to make sure my registration is current.
NJ went all mail when CoVid hit in 2020.
I do miss going to the polls and seeing that long line of my matching signatures in The Big Book, and the workers were always so nice. For awhile I voted at a Middle School I could walk to, but security issues sent it to the Town Hall.
NJ does the legislature/governor in odd years so I haven’t missed an election in 48 years and not about to start now 
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Agree 100%. Force the White Supremacist CalvinBall 6 (technically 5 WS and one HN) to justify their desire to allow only White People to hold elected office. Make them put it in writing.
Roberts isn’t asking for fairer competition…What he and the conservatives want is for Black and brown students to work even harder to get ahead, in a landscape where people of color already work twice as hard to get half of what their white counterparts get.
I disagree. Johnny the Robber Baron understands exactly how racism works. And he wants more of it, not less.
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It’s so sad.
When I first started working for a huge chemical company back in 1982
My department had
Indians
Sikhs
Taiwan Chinese
Polish immigrants
Jamaicans
A dude from Guyana
Korean
Vietnamese woman (who invited me to her son’s first birthday and I felt so honored to be the only white guy in the room)
I have been lucky to be exposed to so many cultures. Dad flew 747s
Worst boss I ever had was an Italian-American PhD from Brooklyn. He was nuts.
eta: and we mostly got along.