One of those decisions where the majority went against expectation was an Alabama voting rights case, where a majority had ruled that Alabama's Republican-dominated legislature had gerrymandered Black voters out of a fair map.
Alabama's GOP tried again.
And the Supreme Court quickly batted down the challenge again.
https://theconversation.com/us-supreme-court-refuses-to-hear-alabamas-request-to-keep-separate-and-unequal-political-districts-214513
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This take gets the story a bit wrong.
It's not that the legislature had gerrymandered black voters out of a fair map but the opposite: the Court ruled AL *must* gerrymander a map that takes race into account.
And now it's not that the Supreme Court quickly batted down the challenge but that it simply said it wasn't going to get involved.
