The Supreme Court vacated a three-judge panel ruling against Alabama's congressional map in a 6-3 decision, allowing the state to proceed with a single majority-minority district while the case returns to the lower court, according to The Dispatch. The ruling split along ideological lines, with Justice Sotomayor writing the dissent joined by Justices Kagan and Jackson, arguing the panel had found an independent 14th Amendment Equal Protection violation that the majority's order failed to address — meaning vacating the decision caused "absolute chaos" regardless of the Court's separate Calais ruling on Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act.