The Supreme Court will hear a major new case that could further weaken the landmark Voting Rights Act, enacted to protect minority voters, as the justices consider a dispute over Alabama's congressional district map.
Alabama’s Republican attorney general, Steve Marshall, is asking the court, which has a 6-3 conservative majority, to unravel decades of precedent on how to remedy concerns that the power of Black voters is being diluted by dividing voters into districts where white voters dominate.
For the first time in the court's history, two Black justices — conservative Clarence Thomas and liberal Ketanji Brown Jackson — will be on the bench together for a case concerning race issues.The two consolidated cases being heard Tuesday arise from litigation over the new congressional district map that was drawn by the Republican-controlled Alabama Legislature after the 2020 census.
The state argues that the lower court put too much emphasis on race in reaching its conclusions. Marshall says in court papers that the fact that the challengers were able to show that it was possible to draw a second majority-Black district was not sufficient evidence that the state's actions were discriminatory.
The Supreme Court has in two cases over the last decade already weakened the Voting Rights Act, beginning in 2013 when it gutted a key provision of the law that allowed for federal oversight of election law changes in certain states. Last year,Lawyers for the challengers say the lower court followed existing precedent, something that Roberts noted when he voted against blocking the decision.
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