On January 27, all three judges in the Alabama U.S. House redistricting case forcefully rejected a request from the state for a stay. The three judges wrote 34 pages, and rebut the state’s argument that the plaintiffs had conceded that two African-American majority districts cannot be drawn unless all traditional redistricting guidelines (compactness, not splitting jurisdictions, etc.) are set aside. The judges say they have reviewed every brief, every piece of evidence, and the transcripts of the oral argument, and plaintiffs did not make such a concession. Read it here.