Ignoring a recent Supreme Court ruling, Republicans in the Alabama legislature have passed a new congressional map with only a single majority Black district.
The decision comes after the Supreme Court upheld a lower court’s order to redraw the state’s previous congressional map, which the court deemed an illegal gerrymander, to contain at least two districts with a majority Black voting population.
However, the redesigned map, passed by Alabama Republicans on Friday after a special session, created only one seat with a majority Black electorate, NBC reported. Another seat created has a 40 percent Black population. Groups that contested the previous map have already pledged to fight the revised one.
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