If the court erodes Section 2’s power in redistricting cases, that “would lead to many fewer congressional and state and local legislative districts in which minority voters may be able to elect their preferred candidates to office,” Hasen said in an email about the broad implications of the case. (Our CNN colleague Tierney Sneed delved into this argument and others surrounding redistricting earlier this year.) State officials in Alabama, relying on previous Supreme Court rulings that already have limited the use of race in redistricting on constitutional grounds, have argued that the state should only be required to create majority-minority districts in instances in which taking a race-neutral approach also would have produced those results. The court’s decision to hear the case has raised the specter that it might be willing to further reduce the role of race in drawing districts in federal elections. But the Supreme Court earlier this year reinstated the legislature’s original map while the case moves forward.
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