Red State Gains HUGE Redistricting Win In Supreme Court Ruling

The Supreme Court on Monday cleared the way for Alabama to use a congressional map that a lower court had previously blocked for violating Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act.

“The justices threw out the lower-court order barring Alabama from using the map, which it had adopted in 2023, and sent the dispute back to the lower court for another look,” SCOTUSblog reports.

The decision follows the high court’s consequential ruling in Louisiana, where the majority ruled a majority-Black U.S. House district was an unconstitutional gerrymander.

The Supreme Court has restored Alabama’s 2023 congressional map with only one majority-black district, vacating several orders that struck down the map under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act and the 14th Amendment. pic.twitter.com/wH4OOGReOd

— SCOTUS Wire (@scotus_wire) May 12, 2026

SCOTUSblog explained further:

Justice Sonia Sotomayor dissented from Monday’s decision, in a four-page opinion joined by Justices Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson. In her view, the court’s order