The  Supreme Court  on Thursday issued a surprising  5-4 ruling  in favor of Black voters in a congressional redistricting case from Alabama, with two conservative justices joining liberals in rejecting a Republican-led effort to weaken a landmark voting rights law. Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Brett Kavanaugh aligned with the court's liberals in affirming a lower-court ruling that found a likely violation of the Voting Rights Act in  an Alabama congressional map with one majority Black seat out of seven congressional districts in a state where more than one in four residents is Black .

https://gvwire.com/2023/06/08/supreme-court-rules-in-favor-of-black-alabama-voters-in-unexpected-defense-of-voting-rights-act/

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