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“There’s no opportunity there for anybody other than a white Republican to win that district. Voting rights advocates and Black lawmakers said the plan invoked the state’s Jim Crow history of treating Black voters unfairly. State lawmakers faced a deadline to adopt new district lines after the Supreme Court in June upheld a three-judge panel’s finding that the current state map - with one majority-Black district out of seven in a state that is 27% Black - likely violates the federal Voting Rights Act. The map was a compromise between plans that had percentages of 42% and 38% for the southeast Alabama district.

Lawmakers in the Republican-dominated House and Senate instead passed a plan that would increase the percentage of Black voters from about 31% to 40% in the state’s 2nd District.

Supreme Court to give minority voters a greater voice and trigger a renewed battle over the state’s political map.

(AP) - Alabama on Friday refused to create a second majority-Black congressional district, a move that could defy a recent order from the U.S.

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