Allen v. Milligan · ¶33

The District Court's account of the evidence here is more than plausible. The record is bereft of evidence suggesting that Alabama took seriously this Court's finding of discriminatory vote dilution in Allen. Speaker of the Alabama House of Representatives Nathaniel Ledbetter put it bluntly: “ `If you think about where we were, the Supreme Court ruling [in Allen] was five to four. So there's just one judge that needed to see something different.' ” Singleton, 782 F. Supp. 3d, at 1348. That admission, the District Court observed, suggests “that Speaker Ledbetter was not focused on trying to remedy likely vote dilution” when the Alabama Legislature passed the 2023 Redistricting Plan. Ibid.

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