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The Donald J Trump (formerly U.S.) Supreme Court> @apnews.com Alabama’s Republican leadership filed an emergency appeal with the justices a day after a court refused to let the state use a map it adopted three years ago that has a majority Black population in one of its seven congressional districts

Of course NBC— “ #SCOTUS allowed Alabama to use a congressional map that eliminates one of two majority-Black districts in the state in a win for Republicans. 6-3 on ideological lines with conservatives in the majority, granted an emergency request filed by Republican officials”

The U.S. Supreme Court will allow Alabama to use a congressional map found to have intentionally discriminated against Black voters, it said Tuesday. By: Brentin Mock #BlackskyNews www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Supreme Court's Alabama redistricting decision could encourage more chaos, experts warn The court's repudiation of a lower court decision was only the latest case in which it has played a role in changing the congressional maps for Louisiana, Texas, Virginia, and California. <br><br>

Justice Sonia Sotomayor blasted the court’s conservative majority for a ruling that “debases the democratic process” by allowing Alabama to use a congressional map that the justices had previously found intentionally discriminated against Black voters. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Alabama filed an emergency appeal asking the Supreme Court to allow it to use a new congressional map. On Tuesday a lower court rejected the map, finding it discriminated against black voters. Alabama argues that the ruling defies the Supreme Court’s decision from earlier this month... 1/2

BREAKING: The Supreme Court has cleared the way for Alabama Republicans to use a contested 2023 congressional map that a lower court had called "intentional race-based discrimination" in violation of the Voting Rights Act and the Constitution. Read more: abcnews.visitlink.me/7HzalZ

SCOTUS right wing majority jumps the shark again, uses the "emergency docket" to suppress black votes. Deplorable behavior by the highest court in the land. Supreme court approves Alabama map that erases majority-Black district www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Black voters in Alabama urged the SCOTUS to reject the state’s emergency request to use a congressional map with only one majority-Black district in the midterms — a move they warn would reward Alabama for trying to revive a map that lower courts have repeatedly found intentionally discriminatory

BREAKING: The Supreme Court just ruled to allow the state of Alabama to use a new map for congressional districts that a lower federal court had ruled was discriminatory to Black voters. The 6-3 ruling eliminates one of the two majority Black districts. Depressing. www.cnbc.com/2026/06/03/s...

BREAKING: A federal court in Alabama has struck down Republicans’ attempt to redraw the state’s congressional map, on the grounds that it intentionally discriminates against Black voters. newrepublic.com/post/210881/...

-The Hill "BREAKING: A three-judge panel blocked Alabama Republicans’ congressional map on Tuesday that would’ve given the party a potential pickup opportunity in the midterms." thehill.com/regulation/c...

There’s another showdown between the courts & the State of Alabama over congressional district maps, and it’s likely headed - you guessed it - back to the U.S. Supreme Court. tinyurl.com/yy4xcnkp #NewsAlerts #Alabama #AllenvMilligan #VotingRightsAct #VRA #RacialGerrymandering #RacialDiscrimination

June 2, 2026 — Supreme Court allows Alabama to use congressional map favoring Republicans in this year’s elections. Proven racist Trump's MAGA SCOTUS can move quickly when they want emphasizing their political hackery. apnews.com/article/supr...

Black voters in Alabama urge SCOTUS to reject the state’s emergency request to use a congressional map with only 1 majority-Black district in the midterms. The map was previously found to be intentionally discriminatory which remains unconstitutional even after the SCOTUS gutted the VRA.

Supreme Court allows Alabama to use a congressional map favoring Republicans, blocking a lower court ruling that the redistricting plan discriminates against Black voters. Justices grant an emergency appeal to restore map, effectively disregarding lower court's finding of intentional racial bias.

🚨BREAKING: 3-judge panel finds that congressional map that Alabama wants to use for this year's midterms is intentionally discriminatory and issues a preliminary injunction. drive.google.com/file/d/1K2Zf...

BREAKING: In an unsigned, per curiam opinion on the shadow docket, the SCOTUS conservatives allow Alabama to use a congressional map held repeatedly by a lower court to have been enacted with discriminatory intent.

Supreme Court greenlights Alabama’s racial gerrymander, signaling free rein for states to discriminate The U.S. Supreme Court will allow Alabama to use a congressional map found to have intentionally discriminated against Black voters, it said Tuesday www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

BREAKING: 3-judge panel blocks Alabama's attempt to use Congressional map that would go from 2 majority-minority districts down to 1. Judges say plan still appears to violate 14th Amendment. Next stop: #SCOTUS storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

U.S. Supreme Court approves Republican-drawn voting map in Alabama ‘States are free to decide for themselves whether last-minute changes to an election are in their best interests’ the Supreme Court's ruling said

BREAKING 🚨 🚨 🚨 Federal judges on Tuesday temporarily blocked Alabama’s plan to use a new congressional map that could give Republicans an advantage in a key House race in the midterm elections. www.wsls.com/news/politic...

Alabama asks Supreme Court to approve its racially gerrymandered maps www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/... Alabama asked the U.S. Supreme Court this morning to pause a lower court’s ruling from this week that blocked the state from using a racially gerrymandered map for this year’s midterms.

+10 it is: @apnews.com Supreme Court allows Alabama to use congressional map favoring Republicans in this year's elections The justices granted the state’s emergency appeal to use a map it adopted three years ago that has a majority-Black population in just one of its seven congressional districts.

Supreme court approves Alabama map that erases majority-Black district <p>Court decision that represents win for Republicans comes after lengthy battle over state’s congressional map</p><ul><li><p><a href="https://viewer.gutools.co.uk/news/2026/feb/17/sign-up-for-the-breaking-news-us-email-to-get-newsletter-alerts-direct-to-your-inbox?utm_medium=ACQUISITIONS_STANDFIRST&amp;utm_campaign=BN22326&amp;utm_content=signup&amp;utm_term=standfirst&amp;utm_source=GUARDIAN_WEB">Sign up for the Breaking News US newsletter email</a></p></li></ul><p>Alabama can use a redrawn congressional map that eliminates one of the state’s two majority-Black districts in this year’s midterm elections, the US supreme court ruled in a 6-3 decision on Tuesday, another major blow to Black voters and a win for Republicans.</p><p>The court’s emergency ruling is the most consequential decision it had issued since its landmark ruling in late April that struck down a critical provision of the Voting Rights Act. In that case, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/29/supreme-court-louisiana-congressional-map-case-ruling">Louisiana v Callais</a>, the court’s majority made it nearly impossible to win Vo…

Federal court blocks new Republican-friendly voting map in Alabama <p>Panels of three judges says congressional map was drawn to intentionally discriminate against Black voters</p><p>Alabama cannot use a new Republican-friendly map in this year’s midterm elections because it was drawn to intentionally discriminate against Black voters, a panel of three federal judges ruled on Tuesday.</p><p>The decision blocks Alabama from using a congressional map lawmakers passed in 2023 but never went into effect because the same court found it was drawn with intent to discriminate. Alabama was eventually ordered to adopt a map with two majority-Black districts that both elected Democrats After the US supreme court gutted a major provision of the Voting Rights Act in April, Alabama took the extraordinary step of moving its imminent congressional primary and sought to use the 2023 congressional map this year.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/26/alabama-new-congressional-map-struck-down">Continue reading...</a>

In Alabama Ruling, Supreme Court Signals Limited Role for Federal Courts in Redistricting Fights In an emergency ruling on Tuesday night, the court’s conservative majority gave a first glimpse into congressional district battles under a weakened Voting Rights Act www.nytimes.com/2026/06/03/u...

Breaking🚨🚨 Federal court blocks new Republican-friendly voting map in Alabama 👀🇺🇸👏👏 “Panels of three judges says congressional map was drawn to intentionally discriminate against Black voters.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

A federal district court Tuesday blocked Alabama from using its 2023 congressional map in this year’s midterm elections, after plaintiffs in a long-running legal challenge asked the court for an emergency order halting the last-minute gerrymander.

Supreme Court allows Alabama to use congressional map favoring Republicans in this year's elections June 02, 2026 The justices granted the state’s emergency appeal to use a map it adopted three years ago that has a majority-Black population in just one of its seven congressional districts.

Breaking news: SCOTUS intervenes in Alabama redistricting case & says GOP *is* allowed to change Alabama map. Despite a lower-court finding evidence of intentional discrimination. Yet another SCOTUS gift to the GOP; eliminates seat of a Black member of Congress www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...

Supreme Court grants Alabama’s emergency appeal to use map a lower court ruled racially discriminatory - MS NOW In case you were wondering if the Republicans on the Roberts court cared about equal rights…

Alabama pushes US Supreme Court to approve congressional map for midterms Republicans have revived a push to implement a congressional map that was rejected in 2023 for racial discrimination.

BREAKING: By a 6-3 vote, #SCOTUS will allow Alabama to use its never-implemented 2023 districts in this year's elections. They're likely to result in a 6-1, R-D split and the loss of 1 of 2 majority Black AL districts. www.documentcloud.org/documents/28... Earlier: www.politico.com/news/2026/05...

“The unanimous three-judge panel ruled the state could not use its map because the court had years ago determined it “represents an intentional effort to crack the Black population in Alabama.” #BreakingNews #VotingRights #Gerrymandering #News

SCOTUS pauses a court-drawn map that gave Black Alabamians more voice. Raising the big question: did Alabama's map intentionally block Black voters? Hear our episode breaking down the evidence and what it means. Listen now: youtu.be/aJz_eI46GQQ

🔴 BREAKING: The Supreme Court has handed Alabama Republicans a major redistricting victory, clearing the way for a congressional map with just one majority-Black district and escalating the broader fight over House control ahead of November. Full story: iamdonnyevans.substack.com/i/200358266/...

🚨BREAKING: Alabama officially asked the U.S. Supreme Court to pause a lower court’s ruling from earlier this week that blocked the state from using a racially gerrymandered map for this year’s midterms. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

BREAKING: 3-Judge Panel Including TWO Trump Appointees Blocks Racist Alabama Gerrymander, Ruling That It Not Only Violates the Newly Limited Voting Rights Act but Also the U.S. Constitution | Democracy Docket

BREAKING: The U.S. Supreme Court is letting Alabama use its 2023 congressional map — with just one majority-Black district out of seven — blocking a lower court that said it discriminated against Black voters and clearing the way for August special primaries under those lines.

BREAKING: The Supreme Court just allowed Alabama to use a congressional map that a federal court found was designed to intentionally discriminate against Black voters. This is not a surprise. It’s a pattern. The system is rigged—and small fixes won’t fix it.

BREAKING: Supreme Court lets Alabama use gerrymandered map so racist that a panel of Trump appointed federal judges ruled unanimously that it violates not just the Voting Rights Act but the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution

Breaking: The Supreme Court, Over the Dissent of the 3 Liberal Justices, Allows Alabama to Use Maps that a Lower Court Found to Be Intentionally Discriminating Against Black Voters - Election Law Blog https://electionlawblog.org/?p=156541

BREAKING: The Supreme Court upheld an Alabama Congressional map that denies Black voters fair representation. This decision flies in the face of democracy and is another critical blow to our voting rights.

⚖️🚨 A furious federal court ruling on Alabama’s congressional maps is putting the Supreme Court directly in the spotlight. Legal experts say the justices are now cornered into deciding whether to stop “overtly racist gerrymandering” — or effectively allow it. 👀 #SCOTUS #VotingRights #Breaking

BREAKING: Supreme Court lets Alabama use gerrymandered map so racist that a panel of Trump appointed federal judges ruled unanimously that it violates not just the Voting Rights Act but the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution www.reddit.com/r/BlackPeopl...

BREAKING: Three-judge district court reaffirms earlier rulings, even in light of Callais, that Alabama’s 2023 congressional map cannot be used because it is “tainted by intentional race-based discrimination” and that the court-ordered map is, again, to be used in the 2026 elections.

BREAKING: In an unsigned, per curiam opinion on the shadow docket, the SCOTUS conservatives allow Alabama to use a congressional map held repeatedly by a lower court to have been enacted with discriminatory intent. #bluesky

Alabama on Wednesday asked the Supreme Court to allow it to use a congressional map favoring Republicans in this year’s elections -- despite a lower court’s rulingthat the redistricting plan intentionally discriminates against Black people. The state’s Republican leadership filed an emergency […]

substack.com/@donlemon/no... “BREAKING NEWS- A federal court threw out Alabama's congressional map because it discriminated against Black residents. This ruling means the state must once again create a new map with a second majority-Black district so Black voters have a fair chance…”

Breaking: The Supreme Court, Over the Dissent of the 3 Liberal Justices, Allows Alabama to Use Maps that a Lower Court Found to Be Intentionally Discriminating Against Black Voters (Now Updated with Analysis–This is a Significant and Very Bad Ruling) electionlawblog.org?p=156541

Supreme Court allowed Alabama to use a congressional map that it had already ruled was created by intentionally discriminating against Black Alabamians. In particular, Justice Sonia Sotomayor blasted the Court’s conservative majority in a fiery dissent, www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

BREAKING: WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Tuesday allowed Alabama to use a congressional map favoring Republicans in this year’s elections, blocking a lower court ruling that the redistricting plan intentionally discriminates against Black people.

Breaking news, today: Supreme Court allows Alabama to use GOP-friendly map for midterms, cutting seat held by Black Democrat. It’s the new Plessy v Ferguson case, bringing us all the way back to Jim Crow. The virulent racism of SCOTUS cannot be overstated. www.msn.com/en-us/news/p...

Project 28 #PackTheCourt 🚨BREAKING NEWS 🚨 Supreme Court allows Alabama to use congressional map that eliminates a majority-Black district A lower court had ruled the map intentionally discriminated against Black voters. www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...

“The Supreme Court’s conservative majority has GRANTED an emergency request from the state of Alabama to discriminate against Black voters, to allow the state of Alabama to use a GOP-backed map that deliberately eliminates one of the state’s two majority Black districts." youtu.be/QBx2Ym_9oUs

Alabama asks SCOTUS to allow use of map helping GOP, DESPITE racial bias ruling The state’s GOP leadership filed an emergency appeal with the justices a day after they refused to let the state use a map that has a majority Black population in just one of its 7 districts. shorturl.at/9S7Xb

Over the course of several months, #SCOTUS has had a hand in congressional maps in Louisiana, Texas, Alabama, Virginia & California. Most of those decisions have benefited the #Republican Party. The Alabama case is also the latest “emergency” order tied to the court’s April decision on the […]

Supreme Court allows Alabama to use congressional map favoring Republicans in this year's elections “The justices granted the state’s emergency appeal to use a map it adopted three years ago that has a majority-Black population in just one of its seven congressional districts. “

BREAKING NEWS: A federal court has struck down Alabama’s new midterm election voting map, ruling that it unlawfully discriminates against Black voters. In related news, of course, it was found to be fucking racist. That's what they do in the Deep South. And in all red MAGA states.🙄

Black voters in Alabama urged the U.S. Supreme Court to reject the state’s emergency request to use a congressional map with only one majority-Black district in the midterms. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

BREAKING: Court Rejects Alabama House Map, Calling It Unfair to Black Voters Our teams have been working nonstop around the clock since the Callais decision to defend the maps in Alabama. This is a critical victory & affirmation that Black voters deserve fair maps. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/26/u...

SCOTUS allows Alabama to use congressional map that eliminates a majority-Black district split 6-3 on ideological lines with conservatives in the majority, granted an emergency request filed by Rep officials seeking to use the map, which was enacted in 2023 but has never been used. flip.it/rOaVvO

BREAKING: The Supreme Court has granted Alabama's emergency request to allow the state to use its never before used GOP-backed map, which loses one of the two majority Black districts. MS NOW's @jenpsaki.bsky.social reports.

It's a racist emergency! "The state’s Republican leadership filed an emergency appeal with the justices a day after a three-judge court refused to let [Alabama] use a map it adopted three years ago that has a majority Black population in just one of its seven congressional districts."

🚨 BREAKING: The Supreme Court is allowing Alabama to use a 2023 congressional map, reversing a lower court’s ruling that repeatedly deemed the map racially discriminatory. alabamareflector.com/2026/06/02/s...

BREAKING: In an unsigned, per curiam opinion on the shadow docket, the SCOTUS conservatives allow Alabama to use a congressional map held repeatedly by a lower court to have been enacted with discriminatory intent.

BREAKING NEWS Wes Frazer for The New York Times Court Rejects Alabama House Map, Calling It Unfair to Black Voters Alabama is likely to appeal the ruling, which stops an effort to use a new congressional map that would redraw one majority-Black district ahead of the midterms.

BREAKING: US FEDERAL COURT OF APPEALS (11th Circuit) BLOCKS NEW JIM CROW MAPS IN ALABAMA SETTING UP US SUPREME COURT APPEAL CC: @rolandsmartin.bsky.social @nolahaynes1.substack.com @joyannreid.bsky.social @urbanviewradio.bsky.social 🔗: shorturl.at/Zolhm

🚨BREAKING: Black voters in Alabama urged the U.S. Supreme Court Monday to reject the state’s emergency request to use a congressional map with only one majority-Black district in the midterms. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

🤬 BREAKING: The Supreme Court has cleared the way for #Alabama #Republicans to use a #contested 2023 congressional map that a lower court had called "intentional race-based discrimination" in #violation of the #VotingRightsAct and the #Constitution. Read more: abcnews.link/zh7bI3C

BREAKING: Supreme Court allows Alabama to use congressional map that will eliminate a majority-Black district a lower court said intentionally discriminated against Black voters. www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...

In Alabama Ruling, Supreme Court Signals Limited Role for Federal Courts in Redistricting Fights www.nytimes.com/2026/06/03/u... "In an emergency ruling, the court’s conservative majority gave a first glimpse into congressional district battles under a weakened Voting Rights Act." 😡🙄😡

Breaking: The Supreme Court, Over the Dissent of the 3 Liberal Justices, Allows Alabama to Use Maps that a Lower Court Found to Be Intentionally Discriminating Against Black Voters - Election Law Blog #redistricting #voting rights act #supreme court