Civil Rights Lawyer Takes Lead in High Stakes Voting Rights Case

Oct. 3, 2022, 8:50 AM UTC

Deuel Ross, who will make his Supreme Court debut Tuesday in a high stakes Alabama redistricting argument, is no stranger to the case or to voting rights.

Ross has spent the last nine years working at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund with a particular focus on voting rights cases in Alabama. He previously challenged the state’s absentee voting rules and voter ID law.

Ross will now defend a unanimous three-judge district court panel’s ruling that Alabama had unlawfully discriminated against Black voters when it failed to create a second “majority-Black” district in the latest round of redistricting.

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