It appears that the Alabama state lawmakers are INTENT on NOT allowing a Black House District to be created….
Alabama Republicans, under orders of the U.S. Supreme Court to redraw congressional districts to give minority voters a greater voice in elections, rejected calls Monday to craft a second majority-Black district and proposed a map testing the judges’ directive.
Lawmakers must adopt a new map by Friday after the high court in June affirmed a three-judge panel’s ruling that Alabama’s existing congressional map — with a single Black district out of seven statewide — likely violated the Voting Rights Act.
In a state where more than one in four residents is Black, the lower court panel had ruled in 2022 that Alabama should have another majority-Black congressional district or something “close to it” so Black voters have the opportunity to “elect a representative of their choice.”….
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The National Redistricting Foundation, one of the groups that backed challenges to the Alabama map, called the proposal “shameful” and said it would be challenged.
“It is clear that Alabama Republicans are not serious about doing their job and passing a compliant map, even in light of a landmark Supreme Court decision,” said Marina Jenkins, executive director of the National Redistricting Foundation.
She called that a pattern seen throughout the state’s history “where a predominately white and Republican legislature has never done the right thing on its own, but rather has had to be forced to do so by a court.”
Democrats accused Republicans of rushing the process and thwarting the court’s directive.
Sen. Vivian Davis Figures, a Democrat from Mobile, said the court was clear that the state should create a second majority-Black district or something close to it.
“Forty-two percent is not close to 50. In my opinion 48, 49 is close to 50,” Figures said after the meeting…..
Ain’t nobody gonna tell these crackas what to do!
Get them Rebel flags out boys!
Yiheeeee!
Bing Chat tells me (citing Wikipedia and CBS News) that the only other black Member of Congress from Alabama, Benjamin Sterling Turner served from 1871 to 1873.
And obviously, the Alabama state legislature doesn’t want to return to those dark, tragic days of Reconstruction when the Black Republican Party still controlled Congress and proposed such oppressive iniquities as the 14th and 15th Amendments.
Yea I don’t think so DSD……