Alabama lawmakers on Friday refused to create a second majority-Black congressional district, a move that could defy an order from the U.S. Supreme Court to give minority voters a greater voice in elections.
to give minority voters a greater voice in elections and trigger a renewed battle over the state's political map.Lawmakers in the Republican-dominated House and Senate instead passed a plan that would increase the percentage of Black voters from about 31% to 40% in the state's 2nd District. A conference committee proposed the map as a compromise between plans that had percentages of 42% and 38%, respectively, for the southeast Alabama district.
"It arrogantly defies a very conservative United States Supreme Court decision ... from just weeks ago," Holder said in a statement. "If you think about where we were, the Supreme Court ruling was 5-4, so there's just one judge that needed to see something different. And I think the movement that we have and what we've come to compromise on today gives us a good shot," House Speaker Nathaniel Ledbetter said.
The three-judge panel ruled in 2022 that the current legislative map likely violates the federal Voting Rights Act and said any map should include two districts where"Black voters either comprise a voting-age majority" or something close. The Supreme Court upheld that decision.
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