Court Throws Out Alabama’s New Congressional Map

Alabama Secretary of State John H. Merrill refused to comment on the decision.

Adam Kincaid, Secretary-General of the Party’s leading cartographic organization, the National Republican Redistricting Trust, said the map was approved by President Obama’s Justice Department in 2011 and is based on a map led by Mr. Holder, which fits the voting rights. Said that. Activity.

“The new map remains the same,” Kincaid said. “This does not violate Section 2 of the VRA under the current law and should be upheld.”

For 30 years, Alabama had a single majority. It is a black parliamentary district that elected black Democrats. The other six districts of the state have been represented only by white Republicans since 2011.

In Alabama’s only majority black district, represented by Democrat Terri Sewell, more than 60% of voters are black, accounting for almost one-third of the state’s black population. Most of the remaining black population in the state is divided into first, second, and third parliamentary districts, or “cracked.” All of these districts have been safely Republicans for years.

In 2018, a group of black voters filed a federal proceeding alleging that the map of Alabama violated voting rights law. They lost.

“It’s a thing of the past that Alabama has gone beyond the tragic history of racism to listen to and respond to the needs and concerns of color voters,” said Tish Gotell Faulks, General Counsel at ACLU in Alabama. He said following Wednesday’s ruling.

President Biden and Democrats in Parliament, among other things, sought to enact legislature restrictions on Partisan gerrymandering by the Legislature. That effort was when Arizona Senator Kyrsten Cinema and West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin III blocked the party’s overall push to overcome Republican opposition by changing Senate rules. Dead.

Nick Colla Sanity Report that contributed.