How the Court Cleared Alabama'S Map
How the Supreme Court's shadow-docket habits and its narrowing of the Voting Rights Act combined to greenlight an Alabama map that erases a majority-Black district.
Optimized for books about Understand the legal mechanics, court behavior, and racial history behind the Supreme Court allowing Alabama's redistricting and the broader weakening of voting rights protections..
The Shadow DocketStephen VladeckExplains the Supreme Court's fast, unsigned emergency orders and how the shadow docket lets the court decide...Shelf signal: Courts & the Judiciary
Justice on the BrinkLinda GreenhouseProvides a narrative of the Court's recent transformation into a politicized institution and context for how...Shelf signal: Courts & the Judiciary
Their Accomplices Wore RobesBrando Simeo StarkeySituates the Court historically as an enabler of racial caste systems, offering background on how judicial decisions...Shelf signal: Civil Rights
Supreme InequalityAdam CohenSurvey of the Court's rulings across voting and campaign finance that helps readers trace doctrinal paths enabling the...Shelf signal: Courts & the Judiciary
The New Jim CrowMichelle AlexanderAnalyzes modern mechanisms of racial control in law and policy, linking systemic forces to contemporary voter-dilution...Shelf signal: Penology & Prisons
Blessings and DisastersAlexis OkeowoOffers on-the-ground history and reporting about Alabama that grounds national legal changes in local politics and...Shelf signal: Cultural Heritage Lives