In a surprise ruling, the Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that Alabama must redraw its congressional districts and add a second one with a large Black population, The Associated Press reported.
One district had a concentrated Black population while the others had Black voters spread out, diluting their voting power, theAlabama said that the lower court ruling would make them sort voters by race and countered by saying that it had taken a “race-neutral” way to create the districts, theThe map was allowed to be used for the 2022 elections. Justices initially appeared to make it more difficult to use the Voting Rights Act to challenge redistricting plans that were racially discriminatory.
This time Roberts, along with Justice Brett Kavanaugh sided with the liberal members of the high court in the decision which could have tweaked the voting rights act, according to the AP.The Washington PostThe remaining four conservative justices — Justices Clarance Thomas who wrote the dissent, Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch and Amy Coney Barrett —opposed the ruling
Thomas wrote that the question is if the act “requires the State of Alabama to intentionally redraw its longstanding congressional districts so that black voters can control a number of seats roughly proportional to the black share of the State’s population.” He added that the law “demands no such thing, and, if it did, the Constitution would not permit it,” the
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