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From there, the task would look different: Democrats would have to put together a map that does not so egregiously redistrict the state to its own political advantage that even the newly liberal court would take offense.

Alabama has been trying to redistrict to get rid of the Black vote, essentially.

Republicans in the state have drawn political districts in such a way that they’ve put up fortresses around themselves, but for the governor’s race or the Senate, statewide races, you can’t redistrict.

A win for Moore would potentially unleash all those states to redistrict at will.

Other government bodies, like the City Council, also have to redistrict every decade per the Washington Voting Rights Act, which requires redistricting after each new census count.