Legal scholar: Redistricting ruling suggests SCOTUS “wrongly gave Republicans control of the House”

In a surprise decision, the Supreme Court ruled against a redrawn Alabama congressional voting map on Thursday, determining that the proposed redistricting diminished the power of Black voters in the state by corralling them in one district where they made up the majority. The Court's 5-4 ruling in the Allen v. Milligan case saw a majority comprised of Chief Justice John Roberts, Justice Brett Kavanaugh, and the liberal Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson. Voting rights activists feared the opinion would gut the 1965 Voting Rights Act,...