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Cite as:  599 U. S. ____ (2023) 

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THOMAS, J., dissenting 

SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES 

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Nos. 21–1086 and 21–1087 
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WES ALLEN, ALABAMA SECRETARY OF STATE, 
ET AL., APPELLANTS 
v. 
EVAN MILLIGAN, ET AL. 

21–1086 

ON APPEAL FROM THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR 
THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ALABAMA 

WES ALLEN, ALABAMA SECRETARY OF STATE, 
ET AL., PETITIONERS 
v. 
MARCUS CASTER, ET AL. 

21–1087 

ON WRIT OF CERTIORARI BEFORE JUDGMENT TO THE UNITED 
STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT 

[June 8, 2023] 

  JUSTICE  THOMAS,  with  whom  JUSTICE  GORSUCH  joins, 
with whom  JUSTICE BARRETT  joins  as  to  Parts  II  and  III, 
and with whom JUSTICE ALITO joins as to Parts II–A and 
II–B, dissenting. 
  These  cases  “are  yet  another  installment  in  the  ‘disas-
trous misadventure’ of this Court’s voting rights jurispru-
dence.”  Alabama Legislative Black Caucus v. Alabama, 575 
U. S.  254,  294  (2015)  (THOMAS,  J.,  dissenting)  (quoting 
Holder v. Hall, 512 U. S. 874, 893 (1994) (THOMAS, J., con-
curring in judgment)).  What distinguishes them is the un-
common clarity with which they lay bare the gulf between 
our “color-blind” Constitution, Plessy v. Ferguson, 163 U. S. 
537,  559  (1896)  (Harlan,  J.,  dissenting),  and  “the  con-
sciously segregated districting system currently being con-
structed in the name of the Voting Rights Act.”  Holder, 512