‘Historic and significant’: key lawyer’s verdict on Alabama supreme court ruling

The first, and most obvious result, is that Black voters in Alabama, for the first time since Reconstruction, for the first time in nearly 150 years, will have representation in more than one congressional district. And that representation will be elected from the Black belt region of Alabama, which is a historic but unfortunately extremely poor and disenfranchised region of the country where Martin Luther King began his ministry. Where the Selma to Montgomery march was. 

The second thing that's really significant is that the supreme court has affirmed the constitutionality of section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, which is the provision that has essentially integrated every level of government for the last 40 years. 

Third, the court has for the first time in a long time signaled both to legislatures and to Congress and to local government entities and to lower courts that the Voting Rights Act can and should be robustly enforced. This was an opinion by John Roberts in which he said, sort of echoing the language he used in Shelby county, that history did not end in 1960 and that courts can and should look to recent and ongoing discrimination and where appropriate find violations of federal law...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jun/18/alabama-supreme-court-allen-milligan