SCOTUS refuses Ala. request to halt redistricting over likely voting rights violation

The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday again rejected Alabama Republicans' push not to have to add a second majority Black district in their election map, with the justices refusing a request to halt a lower court order to have an outside expert draw new districts for the 2024 elections.

In September, a three-judge panel found that that a GOP-drafted plan likely did not comply with the Voting Rights Act as it did not create a second district in which Black voters would likely be able to elect their preferred candidate.

The federal ruling that originally struck down Alabama's map in 2022 ordered the Legislature to draw "two districts in which Black voters either comprise a voting-age majority or something quite close to it."

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