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The judges ordered that the new map be independently drawn, taking the responsibility away from the Republican-controlled Legislature while chastising state officials who “ultimately did not even nurture the ambition to provide the required remedy.”
Voting rights advocates had feared that the decision about redistricting in Alabama would undermine the Voting Rights Act, which instead appeared to emerge unscathed.