Supreme Court allows a controversial congressional map in Alabama - Velshi - MS NOW

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The Supreme Court’s decision in Louisiana v. Callais was a “watershed moment” for voting rights in the United States, but it might be worse than people thought.

In a new unsigned order out of its shadow docket, the Supreme Court ruled that Alabama can use a congressional map that a lower court ruled was intentionally racially discriminatory. “It is a huge kind of middle finger to lower courts that are doing the work and genuinely are trying to suss out what’s going on here,” NYU Law Professor Melissa Murray tells Ali Velshi. - Aired on 06/06/2026.