Fourteen states are urging the Supreme Court to reject a lower court’s ruling that a new congressional electoral map approved by Alabama’s legislature last year be returned to state lawmakers for redrafting because it supposedly disadvantages black voters. The move comes after a three-judge panel of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama issued a preliminary injunction Jan. 24 against John Merrill, Alabama’s Republican secretary of state, temporarily forbidding him from conducting any congressional elections in the state, as The Epoch Times previously reported. The district court found that instead of having one predominantly black congressional district, as it currently has, federal law and existing legal precedents require the state to have two predominantly black districts. Alabama disagrees. Alabama’s delegation to the U.S. House of Representatives currently consists of six Republicans and one Democrat. The 14 states filed a friend-of-the-court brief in the emergency Supreme Court application …