the ruling means that alabama will have to redraw its congressional map to include a second majority black district. earlier, i spoke to deuel ross an attorney with the naacp legal defence and education fund who argued on behalf of the plaintiffs lawyers. deuel, thank you very much forjoining us here on bbc news. you said today this ruling is a crucial win against the continued onslaught of attacks on voting rights. what do you think made this case so important? you know, this was a real test for the voting rights act, alabama through, the case was about alabama s black belt, a region in alabama that is extremely poor, that has a long history of racial discrimination against black voters, but is also the place where martin luther king began his ministry. if this case in which there is a really clear black community that was in need of representation wasn t going to win, there is going to be no case that would win from the supreme court, and the fact that the court found not only th
been ordered to re draw its electoral map after the supreme court ruled that it had discriminated against black voters. the justices found that the republican dominated state had drawn up a congressional map with only one district where black voters were in the majority despite their making up over a quarter of its electorate. the ruling means that alabama will have to redraw its congressional map to include a second majority black district. earlier, i spoke to deuel ross an attorney with the naacp legal defence and education fund, who argued on behalf of the plaintiff s lawyers. thank you very much forjoining us here on bbc news. you said today this ruling is a crucial win against the continued onslaught of attacks on voting rights. do you think made this case so important? you rights. do you think made this case so important? case so important? you know this was a case so important? you know this was a real case so important? you know this was a real test case so important