US Supreme Court Clears Alabama Republican Voting Map
The U.S. Supreme Court lifted a lower court order that blocked Alabama's voting map. This allows the state to reduce Black majority districts from two to one.
The United States Supreme Court cleared Alabama Republicans to use a congressional map that reduces Black-majority districts from two to one. The ruling reverses a lower court decision that blocked the map for illegally diluting the voting power of Black Alabamians. The map change likely secures an additional seat for Republicans in the seven-district state ahead of the 2022 November midterm elections.
### Reverting to Single-District Representation The justices lifted an injunction late evening that had labeled the preferred Republican map racially discriminatory. Alabama is expected to revert to the previous boundaries immediately.
