Alabama GOP gov approves congressional map with just one majority-Black district despite court order

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CNN
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Alabama GOP Gov. Kay Ivey on Friday approved a new congressional map with just one majority-Black district, despite a court order calling for the redrawn lines to create two majority-Black districts or “something quite close to it.”

The state’s Republican-controlled legislature gave final passage to the remedial map earlier Friday, just hours before the court-imposed deadline. The map must now be approved by a federal court, which has set a hearing for mid-August.

“The Legislature knows our state, our people and our districts better than the federal courts or activist groups, and I am pleased that they answered the call, remained focused and produced new districts ahead of the court deadline,” Ivey said in a statement after she signed off on the map.

With no Democrats voting in favor, the legislature passed a remedial map that includes one congressional district that has around 50% Black voting age population and a second district with roughly 40%.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/21/politics/alabama-congressional-map/index.html

[Solly Mack]

1. Protecting white supremacy.

Disgusting.

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3. Are there no repercussions?

Disgusting is right.

[Solly Mack]

6. There have been repercussions over the years, from time to time.

Some even brought change for the better.

Scary thing is most of those changes for the better came after some horrible violence.

As if simply doing the right thing (w/o the violence) is too much.

[Fiendish Thingy]

2. The question now is will SCOTUS approve? Nt

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4. If so, will black people be banned from voting in red states at the governors will?

[GoodRaisin]

5. Well, who's surprised by this?

This is who the Republican Party is.