Supreme Court allows Alabama to use congressional map that dilutes Black vote
The Supreme Court has permitted Alabama to implement a new congressional map that has been deemed discriminatory towards Black voters. This 6-3 ruling is anticipated to allow Republicans to gain an additional seat in the House of Representatives during the upcoming midterm elections. The decision overturns a previous ruling that found the map intentionally discriminated based on race.
- ▪The Supreme Court's ruling will eliminate one of Alabama's two majority Black districts.
- ▪Justice Sonia Sotomayor dissented, joined by Justices Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson.
- ▪The decision overturns a lower court ruling that found the map discriminatory based on race.
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The Supreme Court on Tuesday night said it would allow the state of Alabama to use a new map for congressional districts that a lower federal court had ruled was discriminatory to Black voters.The 6-3 ruling by the Supreme Court, which will eliminate one of the two majority Black districts in Alabama, is expected to result in Republicans gaining one seat from the state in the House of Representatives in November's midterm elections.The ruling by the Supreme Court's six-member conservative majority was unsigned. Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote a dissent to the decision, in which she was joined by her fellow liberal justices, Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson.Republicans hold a razor-thin majority in the House of Representatives.
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