Allen v. Milligan · ¶55

If all the above was true in 2022, then it is also true in 2026. Alabama, however, no longer seems to think so. What was previously impossible to achieve in four months is suddenly possible to achieve in less than one week, as concerns about the administrative burdens associated with “the last-minute reassignment of hundreds of thousands of voters to new districts,” ibid., have apparently melted away. A State that once decried pulling the rug out from under voters, elections officials, and candidates now seems determined to do just that. The Court should not reward such gamesmanship, especially when it accepted Alabama's arguments in granting Alabama a stay in 2022. See Merrill, 595 U. S., at 1199 (Kavanaugh, J., concurring) (noting that “even heroic efforts” by elections officials “likely would not be enough to avoid chaos and confusion”).

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