Alabama’s Redistricting Case Back Before SCOTUS And Honestly This Should Be A Lay-Up

In 2023, a three-judge federal district court panel blocked congressional maps drawn by lawmakers in Alabama and effectively ordered the state to create a second majority-minority district.

At the time, conservatives blasted the ruling as yet another example of courts forcing race-based congressional mapmaking onto states under the guise of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

But the legal ground shifted dramatically after the U.S. Supreme Court issued its ruling in Louisiana v. Callais, a decision that took a constitutional sledgehammer to race-driven redistricting pushes used by Democrats for decades.