The Supreme Court of the United States has upheld a recent redistricting Map from the Alabama GOP that will eliminate the sole “majority-black” district. The ruling is another gerrymandering wars win for the GOP.
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The Supreme Court handed Alabama Republicans a victory Tuesday night, allowing the state to use a congressional map in the 2026 midterms that a lower court had ruled discriminatory.
Fox News reports that, in a 6–3 ruling, the justices granted Alabama’s emergency appeal, allowing the state to use a congressional map adopted by the legislature in 2023 that contains a single majority-black district for the 2026 election cycle.
In a four-page, unsigned order, the court concluded that that “the District Court’s analysis departed from” the Supreme Court’s April 29 ruling in Louisiana v. Callais, which made it harder for plaintiffs to succeed in the challenges alleging that a map violates a key provision of the Voting Rights Act.
The court’s three liberal justices—Sonia Sotomayor, Elana Kagan, and Ketanji Brown—dissented.
Alabama Republicans had worked to revive the previously blocked map, which is expected to give the GOP a chance at an additional congressional seat by replacing a court-drawn south Alabama district with a map that contains only one majority-black district.
🚨 The Supreme Court has restored Alabama’s Legislature-drawn congressional map for the 2026 elections, staying a lower court order that had required use of a court-drawn map with a second Black opportunity district. pic.twitter.com/6GIQhB0eH0
— SCOTUS Wire (@scotus_wire) June 3, 2026