A lower court had ordered the GOP legislature to draw a second Black-majority district.
Five conservative judges overturned their decision, citing the proximity of Alabama's primary elections and early voting period. They also wrote that the arguments for the plaintiffs, which include the NAACP's Alabama chapter, the American Civil Liberties Union of Alabama and a group of Black voters, are"not clear cut" in their favor.
Alabama will now use their passed congressional map, which has just one Black-majority congressional district, for the 2022 elections. In her dissent, Democratic Justice Elena Kagan wrote that halting the redraw"would rewrite decades of this Court's precedent about Section 2 of the [Voting Rights Act.]
"It does a disservice to the District Court, which meticulously applied this Court's longstanding voting-rights precedent. And most of all, it does a disservice to Black Alabamians who under that precedent have had their electoral power diminished—in violation of a law this Court once knew to buttress all of American democracy," she wrote.
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