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The Supreme Court ruled 5-4 to allow Alabama's congressional map that dilutes the Black vote by eliminating a majority-Black district. Justice Sotomayor's dissent called the decision a debasing of the democratic process.
The Supreme Court voted 5-4 to let Alabama's redrawn congressional map stand, one that eliminates a majority-Black district and dilutes Black voting power statewide. Justice Sotomayor's dissent was blunt: she called it a debasing of democracy itself. The decision arrived despite years of litigation and a lower court's findings that the map violated the Voting Rights Act.
This is a gutting of voting rights protections that have stood for 60 years. The Voting Rights Act was supposed to prevent exactly this: states carving up districts to erase minority political power. The 5-4 vote shows the court's conservative majority is willing to overturn decades of precedent and lower court findings to let it happen. One Black congressional seat in one state might sound narrow, but it's a signal that voting rights challenges will lose at the Supreme Court now, across the country.
Expect similar maps in other states to face less resistance in court. Republican-controlled legislatures already have blueprints, and they know the Supreme Court won't stop them. The practical effect is a significant reduction in Black representation in Congress without a single voter changing how they vote.
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