Supreme Court Clears Path for New Electoral Map in Alabama

For years, Democrats have systematically stripped Republicans of meaningful representation in deep-blue states — carving up districts, rigging maps, and silencing millions of voters without consequence. Republicans tolerated it for decades. But Virginia was a bridge too far. The gerrymandering machine finally overreached, and now the GOP is fighting back.

New York Times:  It could take the Alabama congressional delegation from 4 Republicans and 3 Democrats to 7 Republicans and 0 Democrats. New York Times reports: The Supreme Court on Monday cleared a path for Alabama to use a new voting map for the midterm elections, a victory for Republicans and another sign of the significance of the court’s recent decision narrowing the Voting Rights Act…. The one-paragraph order involved a pending petition before the court by Alabama lawmakers who challenged the state’s current congressional map, which includes two majority-Black districts that both elected Democrats to Congress in 2024. The Supreme Court’s decision will send the case back to a lower court judge to reconsider the legality of the Alabama map in light of the court’s recent decision dealing a blow to the Voting Rights Act of 1965, a landmark civil rights-era law…. That new map would include only one majority-Black district, instead of the two in the current map…. On Friday, Gov. Kay Ivey, a Republican, signed off on legislation that would allow for new House primaries, should the state be allowed to use a different congressional map. That map was first approved in 2023, as the legislature faced a court order to draw district lines that allowed for a second majority-Black district or margins “close to it”.

State Attorney General Steve Marshall: For too long, unelected federal judges have had more say over Alabama’s elections than Alabama’s voters. That ended today. My job: put the Legislature in position to draw a map that favors Republicans 7-0. Done.

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