More reasons the Supreme Court should reject race-based congressional lines

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MOBILE, Alabama — Critics challenging Alabama’s design of its congressional districts want the Supreme Court to make its legislature create a second “black-majority” district (among Alabama’s seven districts total) by breaking up coastal Mobile County in the state’s southwest corner and joining its most heavily black neighborhoods with black areas all the way over on the eastern end of the state, near Georgia.

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