Black voters in Alabama won a voting rights victory at the Supreme Court in June, but Republicans passed a congressional map with one Black district.
when adopting new redistricting plans or changing their election laws. With that track record, most observers were preparing for the worst as a decision in the Alabama case drew near. not only affirmed the lower court’s decision against Alabama but did so with vigor, strongly confirming the Court’s earlier precedents in the area.
But no. Rather, in a move reminiscent of the state’s open defiance of federal court rulings in the 1960s ordering desegregation, the Alabama legislature passed a map with one Black-majority district and a second district—supposedly fixing the problems found by the Court—in which Black voters constitute merely 40 percent of the population. The new map was speedily signed into law by Gov.
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy is reported to have personally called Alabama lawmakers, urging them not to pass a legally compliant map.
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