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The GOP's Redrawn Congressional Map Fails to Include the Two Required Majority Black Districts
GOP lawmakers in Alabama have advanced a redrawn congressional map that blatantly ignores one of the few decent decisions to come out of the Supreme Court this past term. Back in June, the Supreme Court voted five four to affirm a three judge panel's ruling that the current Alabama congressional map likely violated the Voting Rights Act as it featured only one black majority districtOut of seven in a state where 27% of the population is, you guessed it, black. But what did state Republicans actually change in the map if they didn't add a second majority black district like they were supposed to? Like everyone agreed on. They did the absolute least in this proposed map and they made a district that is comprised of 42
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