Four of the court's conservative justices disagreed with June's ruling on the congressional maps, but there were no noted dissents on Tuesday.
siding with the three liberals on the court. The court's other four conservatives dissented in the June ruling.
After the Supreme Court forced Alabama to go back to the drawing board in June, lawmakers came up with a new map, but it still only had one majority-Black district and only increased the percentage of Black voters in Alabama's 2nd Congressional District from 30 percent to 40 percent. The state has seven congressional districts and Alabama's population is 27 percent Black.won the majority-Black district. Democrats could have picked up an additional seat had a new map been approved.
The U.S. Supreme Court building photographed in Washington, D.C., on April 19, 2023. The Supreme Court ruled that Alabama's Republican-drawn congressional map will be redrawn in 2024.On Tuesday, the Supreme Court refused emergency requests from Republican state officials seeking to temporarily block the lower court rulings as proceedings to approve a new map remain ongoing.
Thomas added that the lower court's approach to the Voting Rights Act made the law"nothing more than a racial entitlement to roughly proportional control of elective offices...wherever different racial groups consistently prefer different candidates."
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