US Politics
The Unmaking of a District: How Alabama's Redistricting Fight Undermines American Democracy
Alabama Republicans, leveraging a weakened Voting Rights Act and a favorable Supreme Court ruling, are holding a special primary to pick a challenger for Democratic Rep. Shomari Figures after redrawing his historically Black-majority district to favor the GOP. This cynical manipulation of electoral maps is a direct assault on the foundational promise of representative democracy and the hard-won voting rights of Black Americans.
