A three-judge panel from a federal district court in Alabama ruled Tuesday a special master must step in and draw a new congressional map since the state Legislature defied the Supreme Court and refused to add a second majority Black district to its 2023 plan.
The panel from the Northern District of Alabama noted the high court in June upheld its earlier ruling against the GOP state lawmakers, reasoning a map that included only one majority Black district ran afoul of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act.
“We agree with the District Court, therefore, that plaintiffs’ illustrative maps ‘strongly suggest[ed] that Black voters in Alabama’ could constitute a majority in a second, reasonably configured, district,” Chief Justice G. John Roberts Jr. wrote. The three-judge panel in its Tuesday decision said it was “deeply troubled” by the state’s decision and has decided to have a third party step in and take on the map-drawing role.
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