In June, the court ruled that Alabama's Republican-drawn congressional map violated the Voting Rights Act.
from the lower court. Faced with what it viewed as delaying tactics and deliberate defiance of a Supreme Court decision, the lower court appointed a special master to draw a new congressional map with two majority Black districts. To emphasize its displeasure with the state, the three-judge panel refused to put its order on hold, noting that Alabama had already conducted one congressional election in 2022 with an"unlawful map."in an effort to postpone the creation of a new map.
On Tuesday, however, the justices refused to delay the lower court's drawing of a new map with two majority, or near-majority, Black districts. In an unsigned order, the court said:"The application for stay presented to Justice Thomas and by him referred to the Court is denied."The Supreme Court's action was a further repudiation of Alabama's tactics, and served as a reminder that the Voting Rights Act, once viewed by the court's conservatives as no longer necessary, continues to provide a limited but crucial guardrail against deliberate dilution of black voting strength.
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