Allen v. Milligan · ¶34

The record instead supports the understanding that Alabama was focused on pulling out all the stops to “entrench” the dilution of Black votes found by the District Court and affirmed by this Court. Id., at 1345. Most importantly, the events leading up to the adoption of the 2023 Redistricting Plan were “replete with sharp departures from (and some outright conficts with) Alabama's traditional districting guidelines,” as the State fashioned redistricting criteria from whole cloth that it had never previously employed. Id., at 1343; see id., at 1343–1344. The State, the District Court found, also conjured legislative findings out of “thin air,” id., at 1345, in “the dead of night,” id., at 1117, that “exalt[ed]” certain White communities while “remaining silent on the heritage of all other communities of interest in Alabama (including the Black Belt),” id., at 1344. The District Court…

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