The Supreme Court voted 5–4 on June 8 to strike down Alabama’s electoral map for congressional elections, ruling that it was racially discriminatory.
The court narrowly found that the map drafted by Alabama Republicans violated the provisions of the federal Voting Rights Act (VRA) which requires that states not racially gerrymander districts.
Most members of the state’s delegation to the U.S. House of Representatives are Republicans. The court’s ruling, which requires the adoption of a different map before the 2024 elections, may benefit Democrats.
The decision no doubt comes as a relief to left-leaning civil rights activists who worried about how the conservative-dominated Supreme Court would interpret section 2 of the VRA, which  “prohibits voting practices or procedures that discriminate on the basis of race, color, or membership” in a large language minority group, according to a summary….