The US Supreme Court will be seen in Washington, DC on May 28, 2026.
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The Supreme Court said Tuesday night it will allow the state of Alabama to use a new map to draw congressional districts that a lower federal court said was discriminatory against black voters.
Republicans in Alabama are expected to gain a seat in the House of Representatives in the November midterm elections as a result of the Supreme Court’s 6-3 decision as the number of black voters in the district declined.
The decision overturns a ruling issued May 26 by a three-judge panel in the U.S. District Court in Birmingham, Alabama, which found that the maps “intentionally discriminate on the basis of race.”
That panel was forced to block the map from being used in state elections in light of a recent Supreme Court decision in a case called Louisiana v. Calais, which was designed to begin in 2023.
In that case the Supreme Court found that Louisiana’s drawing of its own congressional maps was a racial discrimination.
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