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Court Ruling on Alabama Map Deepens Criticisms of Supreme Court Legitimacy
politics1 month ago

Court Ruling on Alabama Map Deepens Criticisms of Supreme Court Legitimacy

The piece argues that the Supreme Court’s decision allowing Alabama’s racially discriminatory congressional map—through Callais and Allen v. Milligan—undermines the Voting Rights Act and 14th Amendment protections, expands a partisan standard, and signals a legitimacy crisis for the Court by impacting election administration and civil rights gains.

SCOTUS punts on the Voting Rights Act, leaving its protections in a fragile limbo
politics1 month ago

SCOTUS punts on the Voting Rights Act, leaving its protections in a fragile limbo

Two Supreme Court orders in Turtle Mountain Band v. Howe and Board of Election Commissioners v. NAACP punt on whether the Voting Rights Act can be enforced by private lawsuits, signaling that the Court’s hostility to the VRA persists and leaving the Act’s remaining provisions largely inert as it sits in limbo while lower courts revisit Gorsuch’s theory.