Supreme Court Paves Way For Alabama To Use Racially Gerrymandered Map

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On Monday, the Supreme Court cleared the way for Alabama to use a congressional map that a lower court previously ruled was racially gerrymandered. 

NBC News reports that the Supreme Court set aside those previous rulings and sent the case back to the lower courts for relitigation. Alabama has tried for years to use a map that eliminates one of the state’s two majority-Black districts. 

What makes the Supreme Court’s decision surprising is that it previously ruled against the map in 2023...