A court battle in Alabama over the number of majority-Black districts may be pivotal for the Democrats' hope to regain control of the House from the GOP.
Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall's office is now asking the Supreme Court to once again get involved in the map dispute. Marshall wants the lower court's order put on hold while the state appeals"so that millions of Alabama voters are not soon districted into that court-ordered racial gerrymander."
"Race-based redistricting at the expense of traditional principles bears an uncomfortable resemblance to political apartheid," the attorney general's office said in a statement. A three-judge panel had previously denied Alabama's request to halt the decision that struck down their new congressional map in a ruling on Monday, and warned that Marshall's office will likely lose any appeal over what they called an unlawful map.
"We repeat that we are deeply troubled that the State enacted a map that the Secretary readily admits does not provide the remedy we said federal law requires," the judges wrote Monday as they refused to stay their order. "And we are disturbed by the evidence that the State delayed remedial proceedings but did not even nurture the ambition to provide that required remedy."
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