Thanks to a federal judicial system that still largely works, the state of Alabama will have a different Congressional map that will likely swing another of the state’s seven House seats to Democrats, the Washington Post reports. The three-judge panel had to choose the map because the Republican state legislature refused to comply with a Supreme Court order that required a new map that created a second Black-majority district to help better represent the 27% of the voting populace who are Black.
The map will be used in the 2024 elections because there is no more time to design a new map before the primaries. The Republicans have characterized the situation as having the map “forced” on them instead of acknowledging they completely ignored the Constitutional order of the Supreme Court.