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Supreme Court rules in favor of Black Alabama voters
By MARK SHERMAN
Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — The
Supreme Court on Thursday
issued a surprising 5-4 ruling
in favor of Black voters in a
congressional redistricting
case from Alabama, with
two conservative justices
joining liberals in rejecting
a Republican-led effort to
weaken a landmark vot-
ing rights law. Chief Justice
John Roberts and Justice
Brett Kavanaugh aligned
with the court’s liberals in
affirming a lower-court rul-
ing that found a likely vio-
lation of the Voting Rights
Act in an Alabama con-
gressional map with one
majority Black seat out of
seven districts in a state
where more than one in
four residents is Black. The
state now will have to draw
a new map for next year’s
elections. The decision was
keenly anticipated for its
potential effect on control
of the closely divided U.S. Alabama Solicitor General Edmund LaCour, right, speaks alongside Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall following oral
House of Representatives. arguments in Merrill v. Milligan, an Alabama redistricting case, outside the Supreme Court on Capitol Hill in Washington, Oct. 4, 2022.
Associated Press
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