Breaking news: A divided Supreme Court on Thursday said the Alabama legislature should have created a second congressional district in which Black voters had a chance of electing a representative of their choice.
He wrote that the question is whether the Voting Rights Act “requires the State of Alabama to intentionally redraw its longstanding congressional districts so that black voters can control a number of seats roughly proportional to the black share of the State’s population.” The law, he said, “demands no such thing, and, if it did, the Constitution would not permit it.”Those four, plus Kavanaugh, had earlier put the lower court’s decision on hold.
Alabama’s Republican-controlled legislature redrew the state’s congressional map in 2021 to take account of the 2020 census. It maintained a single district in which Black voters make up a majority. That district has long elected a Democrat, while the state’s other six districts are represented by Republicans.
But Alabama said that redrawing could only happen by splitting the counties along the state’s Gulf Coast, which the state contends is a unified community of shared interest because of combined French and Spanish heritage. At oral argument, Justice Sonia Sotomayor noted that the state had never been reluctant to split Black voters, who she said also had shared interests.
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