Alabama Republicans keep trying to create a racially gerrymandered district map, and as my MSNBC colleague Ja’han Jones explained, they keep failing. For those who might need a refresher, let’s revisit our earlier coverage and review how we arrived at this point. It was in early June when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Alabama’s congressional map was racially discriminatory under the Voting Rights Act.
Supreme Court’s order — a ruling backed by two Republican-appointed justices — but McCarthy’s majority is wafer thin; it might disappear next year; so he preferred that his partisan allies in the legislature prioritize his electoral concerns over the justices’ concerns about radical discrimination under the Voting Rights Act.
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