The Supreme Court upheld the use of the Voting Rights Act to combat racial gerrymandering in Allen v. Milligan. A federal district court agreed with these plaintiffs by turning to Supreme Court precedent in the 1986 case of Thornburg v. Gingles. AdvertisementThe district court found that the Alabama case met all of these tests in the Gingles framework. The state of Alabama appealed, arguing that the courts should overturn the Gingles precedent and affirm a new standard that judges Voting Rights Act cases on a race-neutral basis. In doing so, he stated that the district court’s decision showing that Alabama’s map violated Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act was correct.

Source: Huffington Post June 08, 2023 21:00 UTC