CNN —The Supreme Court on Thursday ordered Alabama officials to redraw the state’s congressional map to allow an additional Black majority district to account for the fact that the state is 27% Black.
The federal court ordered the creation of another majority Black district to be drawn.
He said it would be impossible to draw a second majority Black district in the state without taking race into consideration.
Instead, she wrote, the state plan “divides the Black voters within this well-established community of interest across several districts, and as a result, Black Alabamians have no chance to elect their preferred candidates outside of” the one Black majority district.
“Black voters are significantly numerous and compact to form a majority in a reasonably configured district, as the district court specifically found,” she said.
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