Red state begs Clarence Thomas to gut court-ordered Black district days before primary

Alabama officials have filed an emergency motion to the Supreme Court, asking for it to lift a federal court order that prohibits the state from redistricting until the next scheduled Census.

The motion goes specifically to Justice Clarence Thomas, a far-right jurist who oversees such requests when they come from within the 11th Circuit.

In its prior Allen v. Milligan ruling, the Supreme Court upheld lower court decisions that found Alabama's original map with six majority-white districts...