Setting the stage for another legal battle in their state, Alabama’s Republican-led Legislature on Friday passed a new congressional map with just one majority-Black district and a second district that has less than 50% Black residents — a move that state Democrats denounced as a shameless rejection of a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision.
Critics say the map, which was sponsored by Republican state Sen. Steve Livingston and quickly signed into law by Gov. Kay Ivey on Friday evening, could…