Earlier this month, the Supreme Court reinstated a voting map which effectively deprives Alabama’s African American community of adequate congressional representation. The lower courts previously concluded that the voting map disenfranchised African Americans by connecting the majority African American parts of Birmingham, Montgomery, and Tuscaloosa with the African American-majority counties in the southwest of the state. As a result of the Supreme Court’s decision, Alabamians will head to the midterms with a voting map in clear violation of the Voting Rights Act of 1964. As an additional consequence of the Supreme Court’s decision, Alabama Republicans will likely retain a seat in Congress they would have otherwise lost.

African Americans constitute 30% of Alabama’s voters, but they will likely have only 14% of their state’s representation in Congress — one of seven congressional seats. Redrawn voting maps would have been more equitable…

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