SCOTUS Clears Way for Alabama to Use Congressional Map

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🗓️ 14 May 2026

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Sarah Isgur and David French discuss the emergency docket ruling from SCOTUS on Alabama’s congressional maps, which broke down over three-justice ideological lines, Virginia’s filing (yes, they did file) at the Supreme Court, and a very special 2-1 9th Circuit panel opinion. The Agenda: –Remember Allen v. Milligan? –Central, urban bonkerstown –14th Amendment Equal Protection argument vs. Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act –Virginia files gerrymandering case at SCOTUS –Biogradable cooler dispute, are you Team Gorsuch or Team Kavanaugh? –Why 5-4? –Would You Rather: Due Process Clause or Equal Protection Clause? Show Notes: –Remarks by Sen. A. Shane Massey on the Sine Die Resolution and Congressional Redistricting Advisory Opinions is a production of SCOTUSblog and The Dispatch, a digital media company covering politics, policy, and culture from a nonpartisan perspective. Click here to sign up for our new Advisory Opinions newsletter, and click here to access all of The Dispatch’s offerings, including audio versions of all our articles and newsletters. If you’d like to remove all ads from your podcast experience, consider becoming a premium Dispatch member by clicking here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Ready?
0:02.0	I was born ready.
0:04.0	Welcome to Advisory Opinions. I'm Sarah Isgar. That's David French. We have a emergency docket,
0:25.6	interim docket ruling from the Supreme Court about Alabama's congressional maps. Remember
0:31.8	Alan V. Milligan? Well, guess what? They've sent it back over a three justice dissent along ideological lines.
0:39.3	We're going to break it down. Who got that one right and what happens now? Plus, Virginia
0:44.5	actually did file at the U.S. Supreme Court. Is it as central urban bonkers town as David and I predicted?
0:52.3	And a very special two toto-one Ninth Circuit panel opinion
0:57.6	that will define who you are as a judge on that y-axis, the institutionalism thing we've been
1:05.3	talking about. Are you a Kavanaugh or are you a Gorsuch? Plus, an idea from Jesse Wegman at the Brennan Center.
1:12.9	Should we raise the bar for the Supreme Court to strike down an act of Congress?
1:16.7	Why are we doing this 5-4 stuff? Let's make it 7-2? And lastly, a special, would you rather,
1:23.5	due process clause or equal protection clause? You can only pick one. All this and more on advisory opinions.
1:31.3	Some follow the noise.
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1:53.4	story. Subscribe now at Bloomberg.com. David, let's start with, I mean, we're back to Calais.
2:06.1	We're still doing redistricting at the Supreme Court.
2:09.3	This time, Alabama, this is the state that had Allen v. Milligan a couple years ago
2:15.1	where the Supreme Court said, nope, nope, that looks like a
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