maps are wrong, and you have to go back to redraw those congressional maps, and this is a big win for those who want to challenge the voting map ps, because over the last several years, the supreme court has gutted many sections of the voting rights act, and depleting the ability of several groups, and many groups to challenge the different aspects of an election, but in a surprise move from this court, they are keeping, an maintaining the minorities to challenge voting rules in section 2 of that act. there are court watchers holding their act thinking that they would eviscerate the act, but they are doing the opposite handing a big win to black voter and telling state of alabama, you need to redraw your maps to give greater representation for the 27% of black voters in your
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The Supreme Court on Thursday ordered Alabama officials to redraw the state’s congressional map to allow an additional Black majority district to account for the fact that the state is 27% Black.
the voting map was kept in place for 2022, but the supreme court is saying to go back the redraw it. the state of alabama said, look, specifically this, they had said that we are in a political system where race no longer matters, and all you to do is to draw fair maps with race neutral criteria, and the court here led by chief roberts said, no, race still needs to be considered. i ll read a quote from his opinion right now. a district is not equally open. in other words, when minority voters face unlike their majority peers, bloc voting with the backdrop of racial discrimination in of the state, that renders unequal voting against the minority voter, and this opinion written by chief roberts, and the same justice who several years ago dismantled a crucial part of the voting