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  • High court’s Alabama ruling sparks alarm over voting rights

    02/08/2022 1:06:21 PM PST · by Oldeconomybuyer · 12 replies
    The Associated Press ^ | February 8, 2022 | By LISA MASCARO (D-AP)
    WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court’s decision to halt efforts to create a second mostly Black congressional district in Alabama for the 2022 election sparked fresh warnings Tuesday that the court is becoming too politicized, eroding the Voting Rights Act and reviving the need for Congress to intervene. The Supreme Court’s conservative majority put on hold a lower court ruling that Alabama must draw new congressional districts to increase Black voting power. Civil rights groups had argued that the state, with its “sordid record” of racial discrimination, drew new maps by “packing” Black voters into one single district and “cracking”...