Hearings over a new map that defied the original court order kicked off in federal court in Alabama on Monday.
that any new map looking to fix the likely Voting Rights Act violation ought to have two districts with a Black “voting-age majority or something quite close to it.
Attorneys for the plaintiffs reject that assertion, arguing that by allowing the state to name new redistricting principles as they redraw would amount to giving “the state infinite bites at the apple.” The three-judge panel that ordered the state to redraw the maps in the first place seems unlikely to buy this argument from Republicans. In, the judges wrote that the court is “not at square one” and would not “relitigate” the likely violation of the Voting Rights Act.
The Voting Rights Act “does not require proportionality, much less super-proportionality — which is exactly what two majority-minority districts here would entail,”by passing a law that follows traditional districting principles rather than racial proportionality makes no sense.”
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