Republican-controlled legislature in Alabama passed a new congressional map Friday that included one majority-Black district, but didn’t add a second—despite the U.S. Supreme Court ordered the state to draw two districts with majority-Black populations or “something quite close”—upsetting Democrats and setting the new map up for legal challenges.
Lawmakers passed a map that keeps one district as having a Black majority—but decreases the Black representation in the district from 56% to 51%—and increases, but does not give majority to, the Black voting age population in another district from 30% to 40%.
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