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The Supreme Court stayed the district court's preliminary injunction in Allen v. Milligan in February 2022, allowing Alabama to use the discriminatory map for the 2022 elections. The stay was granted because it was an election year and the Court wanted to avoid disruption. Alabama's 2022 election resulted in six Republican victories and one Democratic victory.

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The Supreme Court granted Alabama's emergency stay request on February 7, 2022, blocking the district court's order to redraw the map before the 2022 midterm elections. Chief Justice Roberts wrote tha...

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