Supreme Court vacates Alabama order requiring second Black congressional district

The Supreme Court issued an unsigned one-paragraph order on May 11, 2026, vacating the district court judgment requiring Alabama to maintain a second majority-Black congressional district. The 6-3 order overturned a court-drawn map that gave Black voters a second seat for the first time since 2008, following two Supreme Court victories and years of litigation. Justices Sotomayor, Kagan, and Jackson dissented; Sotomayor noted the lower court had found intentional racial discrimination under the 14th Amendment, a finding the majority did not address.