The Alabama legislature was ordered by the Supreme Court to draw an additional Black majority or close-to-majority Congressional district. In response, they have decided to defy SCOTUS. What do you think should be done in response?
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar on Alabama's brazen defiance of the federal government re: its congressional district maps:
"If you’re going to be a Republican these days, it’s crucial that you have removed any capacity for guilt or shame. Many people who act so openly racist might be ashamed that they had to resort to this illegal and immoral behavior to win elections because they were afraid they might not be able to win legitimately."
"Sure, it’s anti-American and anti-democracy. But the goal here is to suppress Black voters because they tend to vote Democratic. It’s as simple as a mugging."
Alabama Legislature ended its special session Friday with a new proposed map for the State’s congressional districts.
The special session was needed after the U.S. Supreme Court said last month that the state’s current map appears to violate the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
The map will now go back to the same three-judge panel which rejected Alabama’s map in 2022. #News#GOP#Politics#USA#Alabama
The #Alabama GOP is refusing to comply with a SCOTUS order for them to redraw election maps purposefully done to disenfranchise Black voters. The Alabama GOP instead is trying to keep Black voters in white districts where they will be outvoted and have no representation.
But tell me how the GOP loves law and order again.
So #racism gone in America huh?
A black man was elected mayor of a majority black town in #Alabama and the white city council wouldn’t let him serve now he is suing, this is a crazy story, I have a feeling there are more like it out there.
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His execution will be the first
since the state ordered a brief review of lethal injection procedures following a string of botched execution attempts, which per the dissent led to "protracted, severely painful, and grisly efforts to establish the intravenous lines" for three other inmates facing the #DeathPenalty.
"'At one point, we didn’t even know who the mayor was,' Ballard recalls. 'If you knew somebody and you was white, and your grandfather was in office when he died or got sick, he passed it on down to the grandson or son, and it’s been that way throughout the history of Newbern.'"