The three-judge panel of judges overseeing a lawsuit over Alabama’s congressional map have scheduled a status conference for Friday, after the U.S. Supreme Court sided with their initial ruling that the maps may violate Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act.
.” The Alabama Attorney General’s Office appealed the ruling, and the U.S. Supreme Court stayed the lower court order in February 2022. It heard the case, now known as Allen v. Milligan, last October.. Chief Justice John Roberts, writing for the majority, rejected arguments from the state defending what it called a “race-neutral” approach, writing that the panel had properly followed precedents and prior jurisprudence on the Voting Rights Act.
“A district is not equally open … when minority voters face—unlike their majority peers—bloc voting along racial lines, arising against the backdrop of substantial racial discrimination within the State, that renders a minority vote unequal to a vote by a nonminority voter,” Roberts wrote.U.S. Circuit Judge Stanley Marcus was nominated to the bench by President Bill Clinton in 1997. U.S. District Judge Anna Manasco was nominated to the bench by President Donald Trump in 2020. U.S.
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