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Alabama to use a congressional district map favored by Republicans. The court overturned a three-judge district court panel that [found](https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.alnd.179302/gov.uscourts.alnd.179302.537.0_2.pdf) that the map is "tainted by intentional race-based discrimination
districting plan tainted by intentional race-based discrimination,” the panel wrote. Republican officials in Alabama, which had previously postponed scheduled primary elections for four congressional
congressional plan. That plan, which had two majority-Black districts, was used in the 2024 election. Both districts elected Black Democrats. After the supreme court’s decision in Callais, Alabama took the extraordinary step
congressional redistricting map that favors Republicans by eliminating one of the two existing districts where voters had elected a Black Democrat to Congress. In late April, the Supreme Court's conservative supermajority [all but gutted
Alabama and Tennessee, are rushing to revise their congressional maps after a [supreme court ruling](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/29/supreme-court-louisiana-congressional-map-case-ruling) gutted key anti-discrimination protections in the 1965 Voting Rights Act. Analysts at the Council of Foreign
Discrimination based on race, however, is outlawed in the US, and laws like the Voting Rights Act of 1973 have been used to ensure fair representation at the ballot box. But a US Supreme Court
Alabama to quickly ask the court to release it from that injunction in light of the Callais decision. **Mississippi** could also move quickly to get rid of a district represented by Bennie Thompson, a Black
race had wide implications for Trump’s strength heading into November’s midterm elections, where Paxton will now face James Talarico, a Democratic pastor and state legislator whose message of peace and populism has attracted
discrimination in redistricting. - 🎧 **Protesters from Tennessee's blue cities argue that the new map will silence the voices of voters** who support Democrats. These voters make up roughly a third of the state's population
races. [](https://www.npr.org/2026/04/29/nx-s1-5754657/supreme-court-louisiana-redistricting) ### [Law](https://www.npr.org/sections/law/) ### [The U.S. Supreme Court strikes another severe blow to the Voting Rights Act](https://www.npr.org/2026/04/29/nx-s1-5754657/supreme-court-louisiana-redistricting) But in the long run, looking beyond