Anonymous4 days ago
On May 16, 2026, thousands of demonstrators marched across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma and rallied at the Alabama State Capitol in Montgomery to protest Supreme Court rulings that effectively eliminated the state's second majority-Black congressional district — a district won through years of litigation culminating in the landmark 2023 Allen v. Milligan decision. The protests were triggered by two rapid-fire SCOTUS decisions: Louisiana v. Callais on April 29, which gutted Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act by requiring proof of discriminatory intent rather than effect, and a May 11 order vacating the lower court injunction that had protected Alabama's court-drawn remedial map, threatening the seat of Rep. Shomari Figures and potentially shifting multiple House seats across the South ahead of the 2026 midterms.