Excellent news for all Americans—the Supreme Court blocked the administration’s attempt to mess with mail voting! In a resounding victory, a majority of justifes said our clients were “likely to succeed on the merits” of our case against the USPS rule—which is auspicious for future elections too.
![Second, a full-blown two-party system has emerged in the
States where §2 suits are most common. Gingles arose in
the context of a one-party system in which black and white
voters had starkly different voting patterns despite their af-
filiation within the same party. 478 U. S., at 59. In the
area involved in Gingles, an overwhelming majority of
white voters did not vote for any black candidate in the
Democratic party primary elections, which for all practical
purposes selected the candidates who would ultimately ob-
tain office. Ibid. And in general elections, white voters in
heavily Democratic areas often ranked black candidates
last among Democrats. Ibid. Such intra-party disparities
showed that black voters had less opportunity to elect their
preferred candidate because of their race, not because of
their partisan affiliation.
When the vast majority of voters, regardless of race, fa-
vors the same political party, a map that is disadvanta-
geous for members of one racial group cannot be explained
on the ground that it was drawn to favor a particular polit-
ical party. But in a State where both parties have substan-
tial support and where race is often correlated with party
preference, a litigant can easily exploit §2 for partisan pur-
poses by “repackag[ing] a partisan-gerrymandering claim
as a racial-gerrymandering claim.” Alexander, 602 U. S., at
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