Wed Feb 9, 2022 – 5:17 pm EST
WASHINGTON (LifeSiteNews) – The U.S. Supreme Court handed Republicans a victory this week ahead of the 2022 midterms, allowing a GOP-drawn congressional map in Alabama to remain in place, dashing Democrats’ hopes of picking up a U.S. House seat in the state.
A 5-4 majority of justices on Monday froze a lower court ruling that required Alabama to create a new map with an additional majority-Black district. Chief Justice John Roberts dissented with the high court’s three Democratic appointees.
The Supreme Court order restores Alabama Republicans’ redistricting plan for the state’s primary elections in May and all but guarantees that the map will remain in place for the general elections. The court will hear arguments in the case sometime in its next term, which begins in October.
In a concurring opinion, Justice Brett Kavanaugh noted that the Monday order “is not a decision on the merits.”
“The stay will allow this Court to decide the merits in an orderly fashion — after full briefing, oral argument, and our usual extensive internal deliberations — and ensure that we do not have to decide the merits on the emergency docket,”
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