Supreme Court clears the way for Alabama to redraw congressional map

The Supreme Court cleared the way for Alabama officials to redraw their congressional map on Monday, weeks after striking down Louisiana’s second black-majority congressional district.

Alabama officials filed petitions to the Supreme Court last month urging the justices to quickly toss out a ruling that required the state to use a congressional map with two black-majority congressional districts. In a 6-3 ruling, the high court granted the state’s request to vacate the trio of rulings blocking it from adopting a new map, in light of the justices’ late April ruling in Louisiana v. Callais, which significantly raised the legal bar for proving claims of intentional racial discrimination when drawing congressional maps.

The ruling by the Supreme Court will likely allow Republicans to flip one of the two Democratic-held congressional seats in the state for the 2026 election, as the state will revert to a 2023 map that still included one black-majority district.