Supreme Court said the Voting Rights Act gave Black voters in Alabama a chance to elect a second member of Congress.
The Supreme Court for a second time has ruled against Alabama’s Republican leaders and held that the Voting Rights Act requires a second congressional district with a near majority of Black voters.
Without comment or dissent, the justices turned down an unusual appeal from the state’s lawyers, who were the losing end of a 5-4 decision in June.Jr., upheld a three-judge panel that had found that Alabama’s election map had a discriminatory effect on Black voters.Even though they made up 27% of the state’s population, they were shut out of electing a Black representative in six of the seven districts.
But Alabama’s Republican lawmakers refused to follow that order and instead drew a revised map that would once again assure that a white Republican won in six of the seven districts.
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