The ability of minority voters to elect representatives of their choice could nose-dive if the Supreme Court sides with Alabama in a case over the scope of the Voting Rights Act, the law’s defenders told the justices Tuesday.
In the first of several cases this term on race in federal law, Alabama has urged the Supreme Court to overturn a lower court ruling that would require it to draw a second majority-minority district in the state.
As part of a wide-ranging, two-hour argument, Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar, who represents the United States before the court, said Alabama’s view of the law would allow states to get rid of those districts and ultimately reduce minority representation in Congress.
