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The piece argues that the Supreme Court’s decision allowing Alabama’s racially discriminatory congressional map—through Callais and Allen v. Milligan—undermines the Voting Rights Act and 14th Amendment protections, expands a partisan standard, and signals a legitimacy crisis for the Court by impacting election administration and civil rights gains.
Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey signed a law letting the state hold separate special primaries for districts affected by any court-approved redrawing of congressional and state Senate maps, giving Republicans a route to replace the current court-ordered map with a 2023 version that would reduce Black-majority districts; the May 19 primaries proceed under the existing maps, while new primaries could be scheduled if courts approve redraws in line with the Supreme Court ruling and similar moves in neighboring states.
The Supreme Court recently struck down Alabama's racially gerrymandered maps in Allen v. Milligan, signaling a potential rollback of protections under the Voting Rights Act, with the Court's conservative majority generally hostile to challenges against gerrymandering, raising concerns about worsening partisan and racial gerrymandering in the future.