Now, an independent special master and cartographer will draw a map with two majority-Black districts.
A slate of federal judges just forbade Alabama’s secretary of state from moving forward with using a Supreme Court-defying congressional map in upcoming elections.
On Tuesday, the panel of three judges — one who was appointed by Democratic former President Bill Clinton and the other two by former President Donald Trump — ruled that the state legislature failed to comply with rulings from a district court as well as the Supreme Court which ordered lawmakers to draw up a congressional map with “two districts in which Black voters either comprise a voting-age majority or something quite close to it.”
In July, the Alabama legislature quickly met and passed a new congressional map for the 2024 election in open defiance of the district and Supreme Court’s orders: instead of drawing up a second majority-Black district, the legislature instead made it close to 42.
