America has always had wealthy people, but I don’t think we’ve ever had a generation of wealthy people absolutly determined to tear down the very American democracy that created all the wealth.
Alabama is ignoring a Supreme Court order to comply with Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act in part because the money behind the conservative legal movement thinks that Bart O’Kavanaugh is open to ruling Section 2 unconstitutional if they provide a text case:
The Alabama Legislature’s open defiance of the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in Allen v. Milligan ordering the creation of a second majority-Black district baffled and infuriated the federal three-judge panel that initially ordered the state to redraw its 2021 congressional map.
APR has now identified connections between Alabama officials who led the 2023 redistricting process — which disregarded the U.S. Supreme Court’s order — with far-right power broker Leonard Leo’s dark money network, described this past week by Politico as “a billion-dollar force that has helped remake the judiciary and overturn longstanding legal precedents on abortion, affirmative action and many other issues.”