Montgomery Mayor Steven Reed is weighing a bid for Congress in the second majority-black congressional district that the Supreme Court said must be added in Alabama.
The district has widely been in Republican hands for decades, but the Supreme Court's decision in September could create a path for a new Democratic member of Congress. Justices rejected a second bid from Republicans to try to use a congressional map that includes only one majority-black district, ordering the map to have a second black-majority district, representing the state’s 27% black population.
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