US Supreme Court refuses Alabama’s request to use GOP-drawn congressional district map

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A three-judge district court had ruled Alabama's map likely violates the Voting Rights Act.

The justices denied Alabama’s request for an emergency stay on the ruling by the three-judge court, which found the map approved by the Legislature in July likely violates the Voting Right Act.

The new map left District 7 in west Alabama as the only majority Black district out of seven in a state where one-fourth of residents are Black.

 

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