Bama Won’t Enfranchise Blacks

SCOTUS ruled in June that Alabama’s congressional district map violated thw Constitution by diluting the Black vote across several CDs. The Court ordered a new map be drawn giving Black voters majorities, “or close to it”, in two CDs. Alabama’s legislature redrew the map, resulting in a new CD with a 40% Black population (up from 30). Not close enough. A federal court panel rejected Alabama’s 40% solution and took future map-drawing out of the legislature’s unwilling hand, and gave it to two experts, a Special Master and a cartographer/demographer.