Supreme Court Clears Alabama GOP Map With One Black-Majority District
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The Court allowed a Republican-drawn map with only one majority-Black district, narrowing Voting Rights Act precedents ahead of midterms. Black voting power faces reduction in the state.
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Wednesday, June 3, 2026 — Politics
The Court applied its recent narrowing of Voting Rights Act remedies to let Alabama’s legislature-drawn map stand for the midterms, leaving the ultimate constitutionality of the single majority-Black district for further lower-court proceedings under the new precedent.
What outlets missed
Most coverage omitted the per curiam opinion’s explicit reliance on the presumption of legislative good faith and its direct citation to Alexander and Abbott. Few explained that the district court’s intentional-discrimination finding rested in part on Alabama’s decision not to comply with a remedial order the Supreme Court had already vacated. The procedural posture—an emergency application decided without full briefing or argument—was also under-emphasized relative to the substantive Voting Rights Act implications.
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