The outcome determines the map the state uses in the 2024 elections and whether the court will revisit arguments over race in redistricting.
to let it keep new GOP-drawn congressional lines in place as it fights a three-judge panel’s plan to create a second majority-Black district, or something close to it.
Lawyers representing plaintiffs in the case said Alabama “knowingly and intentionally” defied court orders and passed a map that continued to dilute the influence of Black voters in congressional elections. Plaintiffs have likened the state’s action to how Alabama leaders fought court-ordered integration in the 1960s. A decision to review the case — even if Alabama ultimately loses — could keep GOP-drawn lines in place for another election cycle.
“The 2023 map cures those defects, but because it doesn’t guarantee a second safe seat for Democrats, Plaintiffs now demand racial discrimination. ... The VRA does not require this sort of racial sorting of voters, and the Constitution does not allow it,” the Alabama attorney general’s office said in a statement.affirmative action
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