U.S. Supreme Court rejects Alabama Legislature’s maps

The U.S. Supreme Court has rejected the State of Alabama’s emergency request that the court reinstate Alabama’s partisan congressional map that the GOP supermajority passed in a July special session. This means that the map that Alabama will use in the 2024 election will be selected by the three judge panel in a hearing tentatively set for Oct. 3. Court-appointed special master Richard Allen submitted three maps to the three-judge panel Monday. Those three maps create a second majority Black district “or something close to it” as ordered by the three-judge panel after they rejected the Legisla