Trump Judges Go Scorched Earth on ‘Racist’ MAGA Power Grab

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A panel of federal judges blocked Alabama’s newly drawn congressional maps ahead of the midterms in a blistering ruling after determining that the plan was discriminatory against black voters.

Alabama was pushing to use the maps that redraw the state’s only majority-black district, but the court rejected it in a brutal, lengthy https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.alnd.179302/gov.uscourts.alnd.179302.537.0_2.pdf" rel="" target="_self" title="https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.alnd.179302/gov.uscourts.alnd.179302.537.0_2.pdf">decision released on Tuesday.

The move to block the GOP-backed maps came from Judge Stanley Marcus, who was first appointed by President Ronald Reagan, as well as Judges Anna Manasco and Terry Moorer, who were both appointed by President Donald Trump.

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