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In 2023, the Supreme Court ruled that Alabama’s congressional map illegally diluted Black voting power. In 2023, the Supreme Court upheld a lower court ruling in Allen v. Milligan, finding Alabama’s map violated Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act and requiring the state to draw a second majority-Black district — Alabama Reflector
The state was ordered to draw a second majority-Black district. Courts enforced it. That map was used in 2024. After Alabama’s legislature drew a replacement map that still contained only one majority-Black district, a three-judge panel rejected it and imposed its own court-drawn map, which was used in the 2024 elections — CBS News
Today, those same six justices vacated the court-ordered map and cleared the way for Alabama to go back — back to the single majority-Black district they were told was unconstitutional. The Supreme Court on Monday set aside lower court rulings blocking Alabama’s 2023 GOP-drawn map containing one majority-Black district, in a 6-3 ruling with no majority opinion — CBS News
Last December, a federal court blocked Texas’s new gerrymandered map as a likely racial gerrymander. A three-judge federal panel in El Paso ruled 2-1 in November 2025 that civil rights groups challenging Texas’s Trump-urged redistricting map were likely to prevail on racial discrimination grounds — NPR
The Supreme Court overruled that decision, citing a doctrine against changing election rules too close to an election — even though Texas’s primaries were still months out. The Supreme Court’s conservative majority stayed the lower court ruling, with the order signed by Justice Alito, invoking the Purcell principle against election-eve rule changes — with Texas primaries still scheduled for March 2026 — NPR
Alabama’s primaries are eight days away. The Court just changed the map anyway. No explanation. 6-3. The Supreme Court’s order in Allen v. Milligan came roughly one week before Alabama’s May 19 primaries, with no written opinion from the majority — Alabama Reflector