Alabama asked the Supreme Court Monday to step in and block a lower court ruling that enjoined its 2023 congressional election map and that ordered a special master appointment to redraw the map with two majority Black districts.
The state asked the justices to respond by Oct. 1 so as to avoid a court-drawn map being used and voiding the state’s opportunity to timely appeal.
The pleading comes a week after a three-judge panel from a federal district court in Alabama ruled a special master must step in and draw a new congressional map since thedefied the Supreme Court and refused to add a second majority Black district to its 2023 plan. The high court reasoned that Black voters’ power was illegally diluted when the map split them among several districts and left just one where they were the dominant political force.
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