Republicans have better odds of winning an additional House seat in Alabama after the US Supreme Court permitted the state to use a GOP-friendly district map that imperils one of the state’s two Black Democrats in Congress.
A divided court revived a map, drawn by the Republican legislature in 2023 but never used in an election, that favors Republicans in six of Alabama’s seven congressional districts. It overhauls the 2nd District of Rep. Shomari Figures (D), who was elected by 9 percentage points in 2024 in a 51% Black and Democratic-leaning district connecting his hometown of Mobile to the state ...