Alabama asks US Supreme Court to allow pro-Republican congressional map
State officials say the blocked plan would cut Black representation from two districts to one and could give Republicans an extra House seat.
- On Wednesday, Alabama Solicitor General A. Barrett Bowdre filed emergency petitions asking the U.S. Supreme Court to lift a lower court's injunction blocking the 2023 Republican-backed map, which would reduce majority-Black congressional districts from two to one.
- The Supreme Court's April 29 decision in Louisiana v. Callais raised the evidentiary bar for proving intentional discrimination, prompting Republican-led states including Alabama to redraw voting maps in hopes of retaining control of the House.
- Despite the new standard, the three-judge panel—U.S. District Judges Anna Manasco and Terry Moorer and U.S. Circuit Judge Stanley Marcus —reaffirmed that Alabama's 2023 map likely violated the Voting Rights Act and 14th Amendment equal protection clause.
- Election officials warned that switching maps would require only seven days to complete work ordinarily taking weeks or months, leaving special primaries set for August 11 in four districts contingent on the justices' decision.
- The justices must decide whether to allow a map federal judges found intentionally designed to dilute Black voting strength or preserve the court-ordered map already embedded in election systems, with Republicans seeking to flip Democratic Rep. Shomari Figures' seat.
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Alabama appeals ruling to US Supreme Court
WASHINGTON — Alabama officials asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday to let the state use a pro-Republican congressional map erasing one of its two districts where Black voters make up a majority or near-majority, as President Donald Trump's party…
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