Supreme Court allows Alabama voting maps that advocates say disenfranchise Black voters.
In explaining the court's decision, Justice Brett Kavanaugh said it was too close to the election to undo the Alabama Legislature's maps.
Writing separately for herself and Justices Stephen Breyer and Sonia Sotomayor, Justice Elena Kagan said the court went “badly wrong in granting a stay.” Accepting Alabama’s contentions, she said, “would rewrite decades of this court’s precedents” about the protections of the Voting Rights Act. In drawing Alabama’s new map, the Republican-controlled Legislature maintained a single district in which Black voters are the majority — the 7th, which includes Birmingham and several counties along the state’s western border. In response to lawsuits, a panel of three federal judges said the map should add a second district “in which Black voters comprise a voting-age majority or something quite close to it.
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