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affected by Supreme Court ruling Montgomery is home to one of the congressional districts that is being altered in the wake of the Supreme Court ruling. A federal court in 2023 redrew Alabama
affected congressional races. The case, however, was not over. In its ruling, the Supreme Court had ordered a lower court panel to continue evaluating Alabama's map in light of its recent Voting Rights
ruling split along ideological lines, the supreme court affirmed that Louisiana’s congressional maps violated the equal protection clause. Writing for the majority, Justice Samuel Alito held that section 2 of the Voting Rights
ruling, plaintiffs must now show that districts were designed overtly to disenfranchise minority voters in order to overturn congressional maps. That higher bar allowed states like Alabama to reinstate maps that were previously blocked
ruling in a Louisiana redistricting case that [weakened the Voting Rights Act](https://www.npr.org/2026/04/29/nx-s1-5754657/supreme-court-louisiana-redistricting). Following that Louisiana decision, Alabama's Republican leaders sought to revert to the 2023 map proposal that would leave
districts. Democrats responded by redistricting in California to gain more seats there.* *But Democrats were also dealt a blow in Virginia when the state’s supreme court [rejected](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/08/virginia-supreme-court-rules-against-congressional-maps?referring_host=Reddit&utm_campaign=guardianacct) a voter-approved congressional
congressional seats and Electoral College votes. But the bureau has applied privacy protection methods involving noise to the detailed demographic data that's used for redrawing maps of individual voting districts. Abowd says under