Alabama asks Supreme Court to allow congressional map that dilutes Black vote

The order prohibited the map, which was submitted in 2023, from being used for the upcoming congressional elections in Alabama because it would dilute the votes of Black people.

The state’s request to the Supreme Court came a day after a three-judge panel in U.S. District Court in Birmingham, Ala., reiteratred a prior ruling that found that the 2023 map “intentionally discriminated based on race in violation of the Constitution.”

“We again cannot understand the 2023 Plan as anything other than intentionally discriminatory,” the decision by the panel said. Two judges on the panel were appointed by President Donald Trump.

The panel had been instructed by the Supreme Court to revisit the question of whether the maps could be used for November’s elections in light of the high court’s recent ruling that found that Louisiana’s drawing of its own congressional maps was a racial gerrymander.

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