The state's lawyers said the proposed maps are unconstitutional racial gerrymanders.
Sep. 28, 2023, 6:09 p.m.Three Alabama congressional maps proposed by Richard Allen, a special master appointed by a three-judge district court. The court blocked the use of a map passed by the Legislature because it did not add a second district where Black voters have an opportunity to elect a voter of their choice. The special master's three proposed maps make District 2 an opportunity district for Black voters, along with District 7, which has been majority Black since 1992.
The Legislature’s map left District 7 in west Alabama as the only majority Black district out of seven in a state where one-fourth of residents are Black.of the Voting Rights Act found on the state’s 2021 map would require a second district that is majority Black or close to majority Black, one where Black voters would have an opportunity to elect a candidate of their choice.
The three-judge court and the Supreme Court have rejected the state’s arguments that the maps proposed by the plaintiffs in the case are unlawful racial gerrymanders.Thursday was the deadline for the state and others to file their objections to the special master’s maps. In Thursday’s objection filed with the court, the state’s lawyers said Remedial Plan 1 was the most objectionable of the special master’s three plans because “of its unnecessary split of Houston County” between Districts 1 and 2.
“The Special Master and cartographer emphasize that they did not use any measure of Black population or voting age population as a proxy for performance,” Allen wrote. “Districts were not drawn to attain any particular threshold of Black population, such as 50%.
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