MOBILE, AL — Mulish Alabama Republican legislators last week took a bad situation with congressional redistricting and made it worse, not just for their own party and their own people but for constitutional law and race relations nationwide.
The Supreme Court already had made a mess of the state’s districts in a decision columnist George Will aptly described as “being consistent with incoherence.” Emphasizing skin color above other considerations such as economics, culture, and geography, the court essentially ordered the state to create either a second black-majority district among its seven or at least a second one in which black voters have a significant “opportunity” to elect a “candidate of [their] choice.
Instead, faced with the Supreme Court’s order, the legislature, in effect, extended a middle finger to the justices in the majority. Marshall’s argument may be logical in theory, but it has zero chance of success immediately after this same court already ruled otherwise just last month. Faced with the utter defiance of the legislature, the special master will feel no compulsion to pay the slightest heed to the lawmakers’ desires. The result likely will be a map that gerrymanders the state in ways guaranteed to create two districts entirely safe for black Democrats, at the expense of the very Republicans for whom the legislators were trying to save a chance of victory.
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