The Supreme Court of the United States cleared the way this Monday with a ruling that allows the state of Alabama to discard its current electoral map. The decision follows an emergency appeal that Alabama had filed with the highest court requesting permission to discard its current electoral lines.
State authorities argued that their current map was blatantly racist and had been drawn through gerrymandering, as it included a district that had to be drawn based on race, a classic electoral trick used by the Democratic Party to gain more seats in the U.S. Congress.
Last month, in the case Louisiana v. Callais, the Supreme Court declared that the map Louisiana had drawn was an unconstitutional gerrymander, as the legislators of that state yielded to pressure from leftist judges and forcibly created a second majority-black district.
This historic ruling allowed Alabama to request the high court for the possibility of creating a new district map for this year's midterm elections that eliminates one of the two majority-black districts in the state.
Another victory for the Republican Party: The Court allowed Alabama to discard its racially-based electoral map.
Democrats complain about the ruling
Alabama had been fighting against leftist activists for years over its district map, focusing the dispute on whether a second majority-black district was required to comply with the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
The Court issued the decision this Monday with a vote of 6 to 3. The three justices appointed by Democratic presidents, Sotomayor, Kagan, and Jackson, dissented from the ruling. Another who expressed dissent was Hillary Clinton's lawyer and the Democratic Party's attorney, Marc Elias.
Last Thursday, Tennessee became the ninth state to redraw its electoral map amid the redistricting war happening in the U.S. just months before the elections, where the Republican Party currently holds a clear advantage.
Another victory for the Republican Party: The Court allowed Alabama to discard its racially-based electoral map.
