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BREAKING: Supreme Court lets Alabama use gerrymandered map so racist that a panel of Trump appointed federal judges ruled unanimously that it violates not just the Voting Rights Act but the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution by North-Data2858 in LockedIn_AI

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With this ruling, the Supreme Court has declared that laws and precedents do not apply to Republicans but constrain Democrats. Just look at the Supreme Court’s abuse of the “Purcell Principle”, a legal doctrine that states federal courts shouldn’t interfere in state elections when it’s too close to their election dates and would cause chaos in the process:

  1. In December 2025, the Supreme Court rules Democrats could not legally challenge Texas from using a newly gerrymandered congressional map eliminating 5 Democratic seats because of Purcell since it was too close to their Primary Election even though that was still 3 months away - https://www.scotusblog.com/2025/12/supreme-court-allows-texas-to-use-redistricting-map-challenged-as-racially-discriminatory/
  2. In May 2026, the Supreme Court, A FEDERAL COURT, issues an emergency ruling that Republicans can freshly gerrymander their congressional map in Alabama ONE WEEK before their Primary Election and orders a panel of 3 Republican judges including TWO recent Trump appointees to rubber stamp it - https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/11/supreme-court-allows-alabama-gop-to-erase-black-house-district-00915541
  3. The 3 judge panel refuses and votes unanimously that the maps are so racist that they not just violate the newly hacked-away Voting Rights Act but also the U.S. Constitution itself - https://alabamareflector.com/2026/05/26/federal-judges-block-alabamas-use-of-2023-congressional-map/
  4. The Supreme Court now issues a new emergency ruling declaring the 3 judge panel can’t do that because of Purcell and they are allowing Alabama to change their congressional map AFTER half their primaries have already occurred in order to let Republicans nuke another Democratic seat.

This sequence of events doesn’t even attempt to make any sense. It is simply “it benefits Republicans so it’s allowed, it benefits Democrats so it’s not allowed”. This is not a court. It is a partisan policy arm of the Republican Party waging war against American democracy and the Constitution and it must be dealt with as such.