{"id":115791,"date":"2023-07-19T02:19:09","date_gmt":"2023-07-19T02:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=115791"},"modified":"2023-07-19T02:19:12","modified_gmt":"2023-07-19T02:19:12","slug":"alabama-scrambles-to-redraw-its-voting-map-after-a-supreme-court-surprise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=115791","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Alabama Scrambles to Redraw Its Voting Map After a Supreme Court Surprise&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/07\/16\/us\/politics\/alabama-congressional-voting-map.html\" target=\"_blank\">NY Times<\/a>: &#8220;Under\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/06\/08\/us\/supreme-court-voting-rights-act-alabama.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">orders<\/a>\u00a0from the Supreme Court to produce a voting map that no longer illegally dilutes the power of Black voters in Alabama, the state\u2019s lawmakers are now facing a high-stakes scramble to come up with an acceptable replacement by the end of this week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A little over a month after the court\u2019s surprise ruling, the Alabama legislature will convene for a special five-day session on Monday, with the Republican supermajority having given little public indication of how it plans to fulfill a mandate to craft a second district that allows Black voters to elect a representative of their choice \u2014 one who could well be a Democrat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The effects of the revised map, which must be passed by Friday and approved by a federal court, could reverberate across the country, with other states in the South confronting similar voting rights challenges and Republicans looking to hold onto a razor-thin majority in the U.S. House of Representatives next year.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NY Times: &#8220;Under\u00a0orders\u00a0from the Supreme Court to produce a voting map that no longer illegally dilutes the power of Black voters in Alabama, the state\u2019s lawmakers are now facing a high-stakes scramble to come up with an acceptable replacement by the end of this week. A little over a month after the court\u2019s surprise ruling,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsstory"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=115791"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":115792,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115791\/revisions\/115792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=115791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=115791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=115791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}