Alabama Republicans showed this week that Democrats are not the only ones that can ignore court rulings and try to do what they want regardless.

The GOP-led Alabama legislature put forward a new electoral map this week that still contains only one Black majority district when the Supreme Court had ordered that it needed two.

In June, the Supreme Court rejected Alabama's redrawn electoral map and said that Alabama's 28% Black population called for two Black majority legislative districts, rather than the one on the map.

With a Friday deadline looming, however, a special session of the legislature on Monday passed a proposal for a new map that had one Black majority district and increased the percentage of Blacks in a second district from 30% to 42.5%.

Democrats object

The legislature is claiming that the newly drawn map will satisfy the court's directive, which Alabama.com said mandated that the second district have a majority or close to majority Black population.

The idea is that Blacks have a reasonable chance of electing the candidate of their choice, but Democrats said they haven't seen enough information about prior voting patterns to determine if the newly drawn map meets that criteria.

Democrats are also objecting to the passed map as well because it means the rejection of several that they had proposed. Democrat state Rep. Chris England tweeted about a lack of transparency in the process, saying, “Of note, this plan was not discussed in either public hearing and it has not been vetted. Also, it is not available on the legislature’s website yet.”

Still, it managed to pass the Reapportionment Committee 14-6. Will it pass constitutional muster when the court reviews the plan before its adoption, however? That remains to be seen.

Evan Milligan, the lead plaintiff of the case that ended up at the Supreme Court, said that without a second Black majority district, Blacks in the state will be subjected to inaccessible health care and poor job and education opportunities.

"Disappointing"

Because apparently, Republicans hate Black people and won't act in the interest of all of their constituents, or some nonsense.

Since when should we even be drawing up congressional districts based on which party we think is going to win, anyway? But that's exactly what both sides are doing in this case.

“We’re very concerned about even the process that produced that map,” Milligan said of the proposed map. “A process that seemed to lack accountability and a real regard for what the court ordered our Legislature to do. It’s disappointing that this happened now, given the importance of good representation in our way of life.”

Milligan and other plaintiffs put forward their own map proposal, which does include two Black-majority districts, but that was one that was rejected by the legislature.

Republican Governor Kay Ivey appeared to be in agreement with the Supreme Court, calling the special session and saying, “It is critical that Alabama be fairly and accurately represented in Washington.”