Meet the architect behind Alabama's voting rights defiance

[Nevilledog]

https://www.al.com/news/2023/08/meet-the-architect-behind-alabamas-voting-rights-defiance.html


Attorney General Steve Marshall is the state’s top lawyer, but Edmund LaCour is the man who shows up in court.

As solicitor general, LaCour argued before the U.S. Supreme Court in Allen v. Milligan, the case that was supposed to gut what’s left of the Voting Rights Act.

He lost.

And on Monday, it was LaCour, again, who represented the state in federal court, where a panel of three judges must decide whether to accept the state’s latest congressional districting map or draw a new map for the state.

But depositions in that court record show LaCour has played a bigger role than Alabama’s courtroom lawyer. In sworn testimony, lawmakers said LaCour helped draw maps, inserted pages of legislative findings into the enabling legislation, and handed out talking points for Republican lawmakers to use on the State House floor.

All of which begs the question, when LaCour represents the state in court, who is he representing?

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[MagickMuffin]

1. Here's the white supremacist straight from Federalist Society

Does the federalist society have any people of color in their mind collective identity?

[Nevilledog]

2. Clarence Thomas

[MagickMuffin]

3. I'm sure there are a few more, but somehow they appear white while looking in the mirror

I will never understand why people of color subject themselves to this level of racism, but they value the color of money more than anything else.

[Walleye]

4. That's it, Clarence is laughing all the way around the world on a paid for cruise

He has been taking a staggering amount of largess I’ve never heard of anything like it. I think his wife keeps telling him that the white people owe him something. And he is still butt-hurt over the Anita Hill hearing, and I’m pretty sure he lied. Never forget about it when these guys threaten retribution, they never forget