The Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that Alabama can use a new congressional map which removes one of two House districts represented by a Black Democratic congressmember. The ruling means Alabama’s midterm elections will feature six Republican-leaning districts and only one Democratic-leaning one. In her dissent, Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote, “Now the court is squarely faced with a record of the turmoil it has caused and the harm it has wrought. Yet just as Ala­bama doubled down on racial discrimination, the court to­day doubles down on chaos.” The Alabama case follows the Supreme Court’s recent decision gutting the Voting Rights Act, which prompted several Southern states to redraw their congressional maps to favor the Republican Party.