Africa-Press – Kenya. The US Supreme Court has ruled that an Alabama electoral map violated federal law prohibiting racial discrimination in voting. The 5-4 decision backed a lower court’s ruling that the state’s Republican-drawn map had diluted the voting power of black Alabamians.
The map, outlining the state’s seven districts for the US House of Representatives, was approved in 2021. The ruling preserves a key element of the landmark 1965 Voting Rights Act.
Two of court’s six conservative justices, John Roberts and Brett Kavanaugh, sided in Thursday’s opinion with its three liberal justices, Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson.
The ruling means that Alabama will have to redraw its congressional map to include a second majority-black district. Although the state’s voting-age population is about 27% black, the current congressional map only has one majority-black district. The majority-black district is currently the only Democratic one in the state. The other six are represented by Republicans.
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