The U.S. Supreme Court’s order allowing Alabama to use a congressional map that critics say disadvantages Black voters has voting rights advocates worried – and understandably so. On the surface, the stay issued Feb. 7, 2022, in Merrill v. Milliganwas procedural. In a 5-4 decision, the justices halted a district court’s injunction that had barred More
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