Alabama Supreme Court Rips State Map That Gerrymandered Black Votes in Scathing Ruling

A federal court is fed up with Alabama’s Republican-led state legislature after it submitted a new redistricting of its electoral map for approval—a redistricting that completely ignored a court order to create a second Black-majority district that wouldn’t screw over Black voters in the state. On Tuesday, the federal court issued a ruling throwing out the state’s new map because it still didn’t comply with the Voting Rights Act. The three-judge panel (two of whom were appointed by Trump) wrote in a 217-page order that they were “deeply troubled” by...