Alabama has asked the Supreme Court to freeze a lower court decision ordering the state to redraw its congressional map, marking the first 2022 election dispute to reach the high court.
Alabama asked the Supreme Court on Friday to freeze a lower court decision ordering the state to redraw its congressional map, marking the first 2022 election dispute to reach the high court.
In court papers, the state told the justices that the lower court order"marks a radical change" from decades of Alabama's congressional plans and will result in a map"that can be drawn only by placing race first above race-neutral districting criteria, sorting and splitting voters across the State on the basis of race alone.
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