Alabama is headed to the first significant revamp of its congressional map in three decades after the U.S.
The three-judge panel will quickly proceed with the redrawing of new districts for use in the 2024 elections. The panel will hold a Tuesday hearing on three possible replacement plansby a court-appointed special master. The court told plaintiffs and the state to submit any objections to the proposed plans this week.
Plaintiffs had likened the state’s resistance to that of segregationist Gov. George Wallace’s efforts in 1963 to fight integration orders. “Despite these shameful efforts, the Supreme Court has once again agreed that Black Alabamians deserve a second opportunity district,” plaintiffs in the case said.
The decision was a loss for the state that had tried to argue the Supreme Court’s June ruling didn’t necessarily require the creation of a second majority-Black district. Marshall accused plaintiffs of prioritizing “racial quotas” over traditional redistricting principle, and said the state will “now be encumbered with a racially gerrymandered, court-drawn map for the 2024 election cycle.”
“We are confident that the Voting Rights Act does not require, and the Constitution does not allow, ‘separate but equal’ congressional districts,” Marshall said.The winding legal saga in Alabama began when groups of Black voters challenged Alabama’s congressional map as racially discriminatory.
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