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On the recordJune 4, 2026
After today, it is hard to call Alabama’s cynical gambit anything other than a success, and the Court’s rewarding of Alabama’s behavior anything other than a blow to the rule of law.
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Sonia Sotomayor
New York

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Dissenting opinion on Supreme Court ruling regarding Alabama's congressional map.

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