SCOTUS Strikes Down Alabama Maps That Limit Black Voter Power

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🗓️ 8 June 2023

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

By a vote of 5-4, a coalition of liberal and conservative justices essentially upheld the court's 1986 decision requiring that in states where voting is racially polarized, the legislature must create the maximum number of majority-Black or near-majority-Black congressional districts, using traditional redistricting criteria. The surprise decisions could impact other states' maps as well.

And House Republican hardliners using procedural fights to disrupt the work of the chamber, lashing out after Speaker McCarthy's debt ceiling deal with the Biden administration.

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0:43.2	I'm Scott Detro, I cover the White House.
0:45.2	I'm Hansi LaWong, I cover voting.
0:47.0	And I'm Mara Laias and National Political Correspondent.
0:50.0	It's early June. It's that time of year where we all sit around waiting to see
0:54.4	what really high profile rulings the Supreme Court is going to hand out today
0:58.9	as it winds down its term.
1:00.4	And we had a very interesting ruling at the Supreme Court today, a surprise one in one
1:05.2	with big implications for voting rights. Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Brett Kavada
1:10.9	joined with the Court's three liberal justices ruling that Alabama likely violated the
1:16.0	Voting Rights Act by deluding the influence of black voters when it drew its congressional
1:20.8	districts.
1:22.0	And Hansi, this I mean, it feels safe to say to me that this is kind of a shocker,
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