The U.S. Supreme Court will hear Merrill v Milligan, 21-1086, on October 4, Tuesday. This is the case over Alabama U.S. House redistricting. The lower court earlier this year had ruled that Alabama must redraw its districts so as to create two districts with an African-American majority. The U.S. Supreme Court had then stayed that decision. That merely meant that for 2022, the legislature’s districts would be in force, but it left the main issue unsettled, for 2024 and beyond.