Former US president wants new trial weeks after being told to pay $5m in damages by Manhattan court
Kavanaugh was the deciding voice in the surprising 5-4 ruling that’s being seen as a huge victory for the Voting Rights Act .Kavanaugh agreed that Alabama’s drawing of seven congressional districts last year, largely affecting Black voters, was a violation of Section 2 of the act. According to Scotusblog, he says courts should “generally not overrule statutes – that’s for Congress to do”.
The case reached the supreme court after a three-judge federal court panel blocked the Republican-drawn map in 2022 as a “substantially likely” violation of Section 2 and ordered an additional district where Black voters make up “a voting-age majority or something quite close to it”.In 2013 it ruled in another Alabama to strike down determining which states with histories of racial discrimination needed federal approval to change voting laws.
In a 2021 ruling it endorsed Republican-backed Arizona voting restrictions, making it harder to prove violations under Section 2.In the biggest ruling of the day so far, the court’s liberal justices have joined chief justice John Roberts in calling Alabama’s Republican redrawn electoral maps as “discriminatory”.
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