Alabama Asks Supreme Court to Allow Use of New Republican-Friendly Congressional Map

Lower court judges had ruled that the map, which redraws a majority-black district, was racially discriminatory.

Attorney General of Alabama Steve Marshall speaks to reporters after the oral argument of the Merrill v. Milligan case at the Supreme Court in Washington on Oct. 4, 2022. Alex Wong/Getty Images

Alabama asked the U.S. Supreme Court on May 27 to allow the state to use a congressional map that removed one of two black-majority districts.

The request came after a three-judge federal district court panel ordered Alabama the day before to continue using court-ordered districts from a 2024 map for elections to the U.S. House of Representatives.