The Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that Alabama's congressional district map unlawfully dilutes the representation of black voters in the state. See potential bias and similarities in coverage from Newsweek, FoxNews, and HuffPost:
The Supreme Court rejected an Alabama redistricting map, ruling it violates the Voting Rights Act by unlawfully diluting the representation of black voters in the state. . Conservative Justices John Roberts and Brett Kavanaugh joined the three liberal Justices in the majority opinion.
The court affirmed lower courts’ rulings, which cited a precedent set in the 1986 case Thornburg v. Gingles. Under this precedent, plaintiffs must provide evidence of three factors to argue that a racial minority in a state warrants a majority district under the VRA— the racial group must meet a standard of population size and geographic density, it must be politically cohesive, and it must be politically polarized from the racial majority of the state.
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