
Limiting the Inevitable Damage
Strict Scrutiny
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The Voting Rights Act in Alabama
Alabama drew a map that resulted in black voters being able to elect a candidate in one of seven legislative districts. That's what the lower court found the Voting Rights Act required, right? The creation of a second majority black district. And it would have been easy given demographics and also geography as well was just alluding to for Alabama to have created two out of seven districts in which black voters could elect candidates of their choice.
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