Alabama Republicans ask US Supreme Court to clear way for new voting map
Alabama officials want a map that could reduce Black representation after the Supreme Court weakened Voting Rights Act protections, lawmakers said.
- On Friday, Alabama Republicans asked the U.S. Supreme Court to clear the way for a congressional map more favorable to their party ahead of November's midterm elections. State officials sought to lift a lower court's order requiring two majority-Black districts out of seven.
- The Supreme Court's April 29 decision struck down Louisiana's electoral map that had given a second Black-majority district, ruling it relied too heavily on race. This weakened Voting Rights Act protections, making it harder for minorities to challenge maps as discriminatory without direct evidence of racist intent.
- Demonstrators outside the Alabama Statehouse on Friday shouted 'fight for democracy' and 'down with White supremacy.' Senate Minority Leader Bobby Singleton warned Republicans are stripping representation from Black voters, saying 'We have just only been voting since 1965, and you are now trying to take that voice away from us.'
- Republican Gov. Kay Ivey signed legislation Friday authorizing new primaries if courts permit revised districts. The law would ignore May 19 primary results for some congressional seats and direct new primaries under revised districts if courts approve the map.
- Republicans in Louisiana, South Carolina, and Tennessee are simultaneously pursuing redistricting plans, with Tennessee enacting new districts Thursday that carve up a Democratic-held, Black-majority district in Memphis. Republicans project gains of 14 seats from new districts in several states compared to six for Democrats.
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The ripple effects from the Supreme Court’s April 29 ruling in Louisiana v. Callais, in which the justices struck down Louisiana’s congressional map, made their way to the court for the first time on Friday afternoon. In a 25-page filing, Alabama asked the court to clear the way for it to use a congressional map that it had adopted in 2023, which has one majority-Black district, rather than a court-ordered map that has two such districts. Alabam…
Alabama presses to use congressional map challenged by Black voters
Alabama officials asked the Supreme Court on Friday to quickly clear the way for the state to change its congressional map for the upcoming elections. The emergency applications to the justices came an hour after the state legislature passed a new congressional map that would reduce the Black-majority districts in the state from two to […]
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