Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Brett Kavanaugh sided with the court’s liberal members in a voting rights case.
A Supreme Court ruling on Thursday had two conservative justices siding with the Court’s liberal members in a decision that gives President Joe Biden a victory.
The argument against the current congressional map is that only one of the state’s seven districts is majority Black, even though 27 percent of Alabama’s population is Black.
Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Brett Kavanaugh, both conservatives, sided with the Court’s liberal justices—Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson—in affirming a lower court’s decision that the Alabama Republicans’ map violated the landmark 1965 Voting Rights Act, which prohibits racial discrimination in voting.
In March, Biden said voting rights were “under assault” in Alabama during a visit to Selma for an event to mark the 58th anniversary of the Bloody Sunday march, in which Black voting rights activists were assaulted by state troopers.
