Alabama has refused to create a second majority-Black congressional district
Alabama House Speaker Nathaniel Ledbetter, R-Rainsville, speaks to reporters on Friday, July 21, 2023, at the Statehouse in Montgomery, Ala. Ledbetter says he believes a newly drawn map of Alabama's seven congressional districts will pass muster with courts. MONTGOMERY, Ala. — — Alabama on Friday refused to create a second majority-Black congressional district, a move that could defy a recent order from the U.S.
Voting rights advocates and Black lawmakers said the plan invoked the state’s Jim Crow history of treating Black voters unfairly. Republicans argued that their proposal complies with the directive to create a second district where Black voters could influence the outcome of congressional elections. Opponents said it flouted a directive from the panel to create a second majority-Black district or “something quite close to it” so that Black voters “have an opportunity to elect a representative of their choice.”“There’s no opportunity there for anybody other than a white Republican to win that district.
Republican Senate President Pro Tem Greg Reed said he believed the changes to the district make it a so-called opportunity district. The three-judge panel ruled in 2022 that the current legislative map likely violates the federal Voting Rights Act and said any map should include two districts where"Black voters either comprise a voting-age majority" or something close.
Black lawmakers disputed that the changes to the 2nd District, an area with deep ties to agriculture and home to military bases, would easily become a swing district. They speculated that state Republicans were seeking to mount another challenge to federal voting law.
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