Supreme Court Makes Major Congressional Map Ruling – Sides With Alabama
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The Supreme Court sided with Alabama on Monday.
They removed an obstacle that was stopping Alabama from using its new congressional map.
The Supreme Court on Monday removed an obstacle to Alabama’s using a new congressional map in this year’s election that would eliminate one of the state’s two majority-Black districts.
The court, over the objection of its liberal members, sent litigation over the Republican-drawn map back to the lower court, which could speed up the state’s effort to use its map.
The state has been battling civil rights plaintiffs over its congressional map for years, with a focus on whether a second majority-Black district was required to comply with the 1965 Voting Rights Act.
The ruling was 6-3.
Republicans will be favored to win one more seat in Alabama with the new map.
In a 6-3 ruling issued Monday, the court’s conservative majority granted a request from Alabama’s Republican leaders to lift an injunction that blocked the state from using a map the Legislature adopted in 2023. That map includes only one majority-Black district, while the current House map includes a second majority-minority district in which nearly half the population is Black.
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Monday’s ruling removes the injunction that forced Alabama to continue using that map. The high court’s majority did not issue an opinion explaining its reasoning, but simply said the lower court’s decision should be reconsidered in light of the decision last month in Louisiana v. Callais, where the justices sharply narrowed the requirement to draw district lines to create so-called opportunity districts to comply with the Voting Rights Act.
Under a law passed Friday by Alabama’s Legislature, the district lines the state sought to adopt in 2023 now go into effect as a result of the Supreme Court’s action. That would give Republicans an edge in six of the state’s seven House districts, netting the GOP one additional House seat they are favored to win in the upcoming midterms.
Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall called for a 7-0 map, which would likely net the GOP two seats.
🚨 MAJOR VICTORY AT THE U.S. SUPREME COURT 🚨
For too long, unelected federal judges have had more say over Alabama’s elections than Alabama’s voters. That ended today.
My job: put the Legislature in position to draw a map that favors Republicans 7-0. Done. ✅🏛️ 🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/6hF47eutOH
— Attorney General Steve Marshall (@AGSteveMarshall) May 11, 2026
More winning!
