Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall joined Missouri and 20 other states in asking the U.S. Supreme Court to stay a federal district court ruling that preliminarily barred use of Texas’s congressional map and ordered the state to use a map that would likely reassign multiple seats to Democrats.

The state coalition argues that the lower court ignored controlling Supreme Court precedent and inserted the federal judiciary into a political process reserved for elected state legislatures.

Last year, the Supreme Court held in Alexander v. South Carolina State Conference of the NAACP that plaintiffs alleging racial gerrymandering must provide an alternative map demonstrating that a state could draw different districts without altering its political goals. This requirement prevents politica

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