Alabama GOP refuses to draw second Black district, despite Supreme Court order

Evan Milligan, the executive director of Alabama Forward, at a symposium at 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Ala., on June 28.to redraw its congressional map last year to include two districts where Black voters make up voting-age majorities, “or something quite close to it.” The Supreme Court affirmed the ruling this year, prompting the Legislature to call a special session to redraw the map this week.

“It’s an opportunity to fail,” state Sen. Rodger Smitherman, a Democrat from Birmingham, said of the Senate plan. Alluding to Tuberville’s past as the football coach at Auburn University, spokesman Steven Stafford said in an email:"Coach just wants the maps to be fair and for all Alabamians to be represented well. He trusts Alabama’s state legislators to get this right."

State Rep. Juandalynn Givan, a Democrat from Birmingham, expressed shock that GOP legislators “would blatantly flip off the United States Supreme Court” with the map in debate this week. "The through line in both plans is obviously they're prioritizing keeping the Gulf Coast together, the very thing the Supreme Court said wasn't more important than delivering a serious, effective opportunity for African American voters," he said.

As the Legislature advanced two maps without a second Black-majority district, plaintiffs expressed outrage and shock.

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