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303 Creative and Other Key Cases From SCOTUS’s 2022-23 Term

We the People

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The Supreme Court Helped Save American Democracy From Trump

The more v. Harper decision gutted what is called the independent state legislature doctrine. The Alabama Voting Rights Act case swept away an Alabama redistricting map that like many maps before it had reserved one majority minority district out of seven, when Alabama is 27, 28, 26% black voters in any given election and always only has one representative. And so I think you've got two of the more democracy-preserving decisions of recent terms.

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