Supreme Court rejects Alabama's attempt to avoid creating a second Black majority congressional district | CNN Politics
www.cnn.com
The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected an emergency bid from Alabama, setting the stage for a new congressional map likely to include a second Black majority district to account for the state’s 27% Black population.

The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected an emergency bid from Alabama, setting the stage for a new congressional map likely to include a second Black majority district to account for the state’s 27% Black population.

The one-line order reflects that the feelings on the court haven’t changed since June when a 5-4 Supreme Court affirmed a lower court that had ordered the state to redraw its seven-seat congressional map to include a second majority-Black district or “something quite close to it.”

There were no noted dissents.

The case has been closely watched because after the court’s June ruling, Alabama GOP lawmakers again approved a congressional map with only one majority-Black district, seemingly flouting the Supreme Court’s decision that they provide more political representation for the state’s Black residents.

  • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
    661·
    1 year ago

    When you have one of the most conservative SCs in history telling you to redraw the lines, you know shit’s fucked up. Alabama doesn’t care. It’s the armpit of the south. Sorry if you’re from Alabama, but you know what your state is.

      • eestileib@sh.itjust.works
        11·
        1 year ago

        Seriously though, I lived in Mobile and Mississippi was on another level.

        Alabama has Huntsville and Auburn and B’Ham that have genuinely good universities and some diversity.

        Mississippi has Brett Favre and Elvis. And Elvis moved the hell out as soon as he could.

      • assassin_aragorn@lemmy.world
        9·
        1 year ago

        One of these days, Alabama will do something good of its own volition, and we won’t have to drag them kicking and screaming away from being racist.

        Some day.

    • Maeve@kbin.social
      62·
      1 year ago

      Also SCOTUS has been stacked to side with these people, but are taking plenty of heat for a while do this is for now, to prove they’re not corrupt pieces of garbage, until the slow businessmen’s plot completes.