Alabama’s Republican leaders asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday to let the state use a 2023 congressional map in this year’s midterm elections after a lower court found the plan intentionally discriminated against Black voters. The emergency filing came one day after a three-judge court refused to let the state use the legislature’s plan, which would favor Republicans in House contests. The district court ordered Alabama to use a court-approved map with two majority-Black districts ins...

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