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Nina Totenberg

Alabama asks Supreme Court to aid a delay after June loss in voting case

Alabama is asking the Supreme Court to postpone the creation of a new congressional map while it pursues further appeal. (Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Alabama is once again asking the Supreme Court to let it keep Republican-drawn congressional districts. In essence, the state is fighting a court order that the high court upheld just months ago.

In June, the court ruled that Alabama's congressional map violated the Voting Rights Act because, in a state with seven congressional districts and a 27% Black population, the GOP-dominated legislature had created just one congressional district in which Black voters are either a majority or close to it.

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