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The Supreme Court vacated a lower court injunction on May 11, 2026, allowing Alabama to revert to a 2023 congressional map with only one majority-Black district — eliminating a second district that Black voters had used to elect a representative in 2024. The ruling, issued just days before Alabama's primary, follows the Court's April 29 decision in Louisiana v. Callais, which raised the evidentiary bar for Section 2 Voting Rights Act claims by requiring proof of intentional discrimination rather than discriminatory effects, triggering a wave of Republican-led redistricting efforts across the South.