Alabama can use electoral map that favors Republicans, supreme court rules

Conservative justices vacated a lower court’s order that had blocked the map citing racial discrimination Alabama can use a congressional map a lower court had previously said was intentionally drawn to discriminate against Black voters in the state, the US supreme court ruled on Monday. The court’s decision allows Alabama to use a congressional map it passed in 2023 after courts struck down an earlier version of its map as a violation of the Voting Rights Act – a decision the US supreme cour...

By Sam Levine and Maya Yang