The Republican-led state “did not even nurture the ambition” to fix the original map, which screwed over Black voters in Alabama, the three-judge panel wrote.
that they were “deeply troubled” by the new map and that officials “ultimately did not even nurture the ambition to provide the required remedy.” The court is so pissed that it took the task away from Alabama Republicans and is having a new map independently drawn instead.At issue is the state’s attempt to dilute Black people’s right to vote by drawing congressional districts that spread the Black population across too many districts and give more weight to Republican-voting residents.
“We are not aware of any other case in which a state legislature—faced with a federal court order declaring that its electoral plan unlawfully dilutes minority votes and requiring a plan that provides an additional opportunity district—responded with a plan that the state concedes does not provide that district,” U.S. Circuit Judge Stanley Marcus and U.S.
. “The law requires the creation of an additional district that affords Black Alabamians, like everyone else, a fair and reasonable opportunity to elect candidates of their choice. The 2023 Plan plainly fails to do so.”A map of a GOP proposal to redraw Alabama’s congressional districts is displayed at the Alabama Statehouse in Montgomery, Ala. July 18, 2023.
Alabama’s presidential election season kicks off on March 5, 2024, with the primary election . Alabama Secretary of State Wes Allen told the court the final map needs to be ready by “early October” to be used for the 2024 election, in order to give the state ample time to “reassign voters, print and distribute ballots, and otherwise conduct the forthcoming 2024 primary elections based on the new map.
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