-second majority black district to accurately reflect the population. alabama republicans went to the supreme court to block the ruling, that's with the court just did. that's the ruling the supreme court blocked. which means that black voters make up about a quarter of the population alabama will control one seventh of the congressional district is here in the new map. just to be absolutely clear, alabama's congressional map is a flagrant violation of the voting rights act as lower courts saw. now the vr a has been solely hollowed out by the supreme court for years, but up until, well, yesterday, the all-important section two of the law has remained unscathed. that prohibited -- prohibits voting practices or procedures that discriminate on the basis of race, color, or ethnicity. a congressional map that dilutes the power of black voters does exactly that. so what this ruling, which lets this map stand the supreme court has essentially, at least for now, gutted the core section two of the voting rights act. and in case it's not clear how