NAACP Legal Defence Fund

The U.S. Supreme Court allowed Alabama to use a 2023 congressional map previously ruled racially discriminatory, blocking a lower court's ruling. The 6-3 decision in Allen v. Milligan upheld the map despite claims it disadvantaged Black voters, following a prior ruling that weakened the Voting Rights Act's Section 2. Dissenting justices warned the decision would create electoral chaos.

Alabama officials filed an emergency application with the U.S. Supreme Court to block a lower court's order requiring the use of a court-ordered congressional map, arguing the 2023 map was not racially discriminatory. A three-judge panel previously ruled the map unconstitutional under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, citing intentional racial bias.