Conservative justices of US Supreme Court appear sympathetic to Alabama's defence of a Republican-drawn electoral map faulted by judges for diluting clout of Black voters
A congressional map drawn up by Republican-dominated legislature provides for only a single Black-majority district although they make up about 25% of state's population.
Some of the conservative justices, however, appeared open to certain of LaCour's defences of the map devised by the state's legislature delineating the boundaries of Alabama's seven US House of Representatives districts. But the Supreme Court, in a 5-4 decision in February, let Alabama use the map for the November 8 US congressional elections in which Republicans are trying to regain control of Congress.The dispute gives the court's conservatives a chance to further roll back protections contained in the 1965 Voting Rights Act, which prohibits racial discrimination in voting.
The lower court found that Alabama's map diminished the influence of Black voters by concentrating their voting power into a single House district even though the state's population is 27 percent Black while distributing the rest of the Black population in other districts at levels too small to form a majority.
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