Supreme Court allows Alabama to use GOP-friendly congressional map
The Supreme Court has allowed Alabama to implement a new congressional map that may benefit the GOP in upcoming elections. This decision overturns a lower court's ruling that deemed the map an unlawful racial gerrymander. The ruling has sparked dissent among some justices who argue it undermines the rights of Black voters in Alabama.
- ▪The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 in favor of Alabama's new congressional map.
- ▪The lower court had previously found the map to be an unlawful racial gerrymander.
- ▪Justice Sonia Sotomayor dissented, arguing the ruling could lead to chaos in the upcoming elections.
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The Supreme Court handed Alabama officials a win Tuesday evening by allowing the state to use a new congressional map that could help the GOP flip a Democratic seat in the 2026 elections. The high court ruled 6-3 in favor of lifting an injunction placed by a lower court last week that had found the congressional map was an unlawful racial gerrymander, even after the Supreme Court ordered the lower court to reconsider the case in light of its ruling in Louisiana v. Callais, which significantly raised the legal bar for proving claims of intentional racial discrimination when drawing congressional maps. In the Tuesday per curiam order, the six-justice majority said the lower court failed to follow the Supreme Court’s Callais ruling.
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