Alabama is once again asking the Supreme Court to let it keep Republican-drawn congressional districts. In essence, the state is fighting a court order that the high court upheld just months ago.
Alabama is asking the Supreme Court to postpone the creation of a new congressional map while it pursues further appeal.Alabama is asking the Supreme Court to postpone the creation of a new congressional map while it pursues further appeal.Alabama is once again asking the Supreme Court to let it keep Republican-drawn congressional districts.
But the state legislature, did not do that. Instead it upped the number of Black voters from 30 to 40 percent in one of the districts.That prompted a sharp rebuke from the lower court; it accused the state of delaying tactics and deliberately defying its directive and then appointed a special master to draw a new congressional map with two majority Black districts.
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