BREAKING: The Supreme Court ruled Alabama's disputed congressional map likely violated the Voting Rights Act.
over a congressional map drawn by state lawmakers after the 2020 Census, finding the redistricting plan for the state's seven House seats likely violated a key provision of the Voting Rights Act.
authored by Chief Justice John Roberts, the high court declined to accept far-reaching arguments from Alabama Republican officials that would have made it more difficult to challenge congressional and state legislative maps that dilute the power of minority voters under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.The court affirmed a lower court opinion that found it substantially likely that Alabama's map violated Section 2.
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