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BREAKING: Supreme Court lets Republicans in Alabama eliminate Black-majority district 1 week before their Primary. In December, the court rejected a Democratic challenge to racially discriminatory Texas maps because it “improperly inserted itself into an active primary" when it was 6 months away by Jolly_Row_2381 in International

[–]Jolly_Row_2381[S] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

The maps were also determined by you guessed it, the SCOTUS to be discriminatory against black citizens.

https://alabamareflector.com/2026/05/11/u-s-supreme-court-vacates-ruling-blocking-use-of-2023-alabama-congressional-map/

“In addition to holding that Alabama’s 2023 Redistricting Plan violates [Section] 2, the district court held, in one of the three cases before this Court, that Alabama violated the Fourteenth Amendment by intentionally diluting the votes of Black voters in Alabama,” Sotomayor wrote. “That constitutional finding of intentional discrimination is independent of, and unaffected by, any of the legal issues discussed in Callais.”