Allen v. Milligan · ¶23

On remand, and under the District Court's order that this Court had just affirmed, Alabama was given the opportunity to remedy the Voting Rights Act violation. Alabama did not rise to the occasion. Rather than adopt a map with the second district that this Court had just held was required to remedy unlawful racial discrimination, Alabama doubled down, adopting the 2023 Redistricting Plan, which also lacked a second opportunity district. Plaintiffs then amended their complaints in these cases to challenge the 2023 Redistricting Plan, and the District Court held an 11-day trial on the legality of the new map. It heard testimony from 51 witnesses, received almost 800 exhibits, and considered many volumes of written submissions. At the end of that trial, the District Court concluded once again that Alabama's failure to draw a second opportunity district had a discriminatory effect. It then…

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