This case isn't new. A three-judge panel found that Alabama's maps violated the VRA in 2022, and the Supreme Court agreed in 2023. Alabama used the court-mandated nonpartisan map in 2024, then turned right around to try and put their gerrymandered, suppressive map back in place for 2026.
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AP: Alabama’s congressional map at stake in federal Voting Rights Act trial [[link removed]]
John,
Alabama’s congressional map is at stake in a federal trial this week to decide if the state will keep the new court-created district that led to the election of a second Black representative. From the AP:
" A three-judge panel will decide whether congressional lines drawn by state lawmakers diluted the voting power of Black residents. The same panel already ruled against Alabama in pre-trial decisions that reshaped the 2nd Congressional District before Rep. Shomari Figures won election in November, giving Alabama two Black representatives in its delegation for the first time in history. "
The state of Alabama is seeking to reinstate the maps created by the suppressive state legislature. This case began in 2021 when Black voters and civil rights groups filed lawsuits over Alabama’s state-drawn congressional map they said disenfranchised Black voters.
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Defenders of voting rights believe they can show a level of continuing, intentional discrimination that should once again make Alabama subject to the preclearance requirement of the 1965 Voting Rights Act.
Deuel Ross, an attorney with the NAACP Legal Defense Fund who represents the plaintiffs seeking to protect the current map, said " This is sort of exactly the thing that Alabama and other states did before the Voting Rights Act — a court would find that there was some sort of discrimination in the way in which they were drawing maps or registering voters and the state would respond by essentially doing the same thing over again, but dressing it up in a slightly different outfit ".
Attacks like this on what remains of the Voting Rights Act are going to get worse over the next few years. As voter suppression laws become increasingly targeted and gerrymandering more oppressive , our work to defend the right to vote must become smarter, stronger, and more accessible to everyone.
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