Up to six of the nine justices on the Supreme Court, we're willing to think about a shrinking of

minority voting rights. Hey everyone, this is Leon from Fiasco and Prologg Projects.

On this week's episode of Five to Four, Peter, Rianne and Michael are talking about

Merrill V. Milligan, a recent case on redistricting in Alabama. Last month, the lower court ruled the

state's new congressional map, most likely violated the Voting Rights Act in order to

officials to draw a new one. The map in question concentrated the state's black voters into one

district through Jerry Mander. And even though primaries are still months away, the Supreme Court has

ruled there's no time to redraw the maps. And that Alabama will have to proceed with the voting

districts as they stand today. This is Five to Four, a podcast about how much the Supreme Court sucks.

Welcome to Five to Four, where we dissect and analyze the Supreme Court cases that have been our

rights on indefinite hold like Delta Airlines when I try to call about the flight voucher they owe me.

It's been a long weekend folks. Peter, I'm here with Rianne. Hey, hello everyone.

And Michael, hey everybody. So I was just having flashbacks to handling the situation.

Trying to go somewhere, Peter, no, you're not. We are going to New Mexico not to visit Michael,

but we will be visiting Michael. Yeah. Not if Delta has something to say about it. You're not.

Well, no, we booked it. The only question is who's going to pay? I say Delta.

You're preference. They say me. So we'll see how it goes.

Today's case, Merrill V. Milligan. This is a case from just a few weeks ago about voting rights in

Alabama following the 2020 census, the Alabama legislature redrew its congressional map.

And because this country is a fake democracy, they jerrymandered the shit out of that map. Of course.

That's right. Specifically, they packed as many black voters as they could into one district.

And then split up the other clusters of black voters across multiple districts,

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