Here are some updates from today.

• In a win for voters, the U.S. Supreme Court denied Alabama's request to reinstate its illegal congressional map. The lower court will continue the process of drawing a map with two majority-Black districts as litigation moves forward. 

• A federal trial began over Florida’s congressional map. A three-judge panel will decide whether the elimination of the Black-performing 5th Congressional District violates the 14th and 15th Amendments’ ban on intentional racial discrimination.

Here’s what you need to know about the Supreme Court and democracy this term.

• Today, the Supreme Court began its “long conference,” during which the justices review all the cert petitions that have accumulated since the end of the Court’s previous term at the end of June.

  • Are you curious how the Supreme Court decides to take election and redistricting cases? Read our latest explainer detailing the process.

• One cert petition the Court will review involves Senate Bill 1111, a Texas voter suppression law that restricts individuals from registering to vote using an address where they don’t live full-time, adds strict voter ID requirements for voters that use P.O. boxes to register to vote and more. 

  • Voting rights groups are asking the Court to reverse a 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decision that dismissed their lawsuit against the law for lack of standing.

Here’s what’s coming up tomorrow.

• Trial will begin in a state-level lawsuit brought by Republicans challenging New Mexico’s congressional map for being an unconstitutional partisan gerrymander. 

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