The Supreme Court on Monday cleared the path for Alabama to use a new congressional map that reduces majority-Black districts from two to one, calling the extra district “excessive.”

In a one-paragraph order, the justices sent the case back to a lower court to reevaluate the current map—which produced two majority-Black districts that elected Democrats in 2024—in light of the Court’s recent decision raising the bar for Voting Rights Act challenges because the law had been working too well.

Alabama officials are expected to immediately argue that the 2023 map they prefer, featuring just one majority-Black district, should now be allowed. “For too long, unelected federal judges made us pretend Black voters deserved proportional influence,” said Attorney General Steve Marshall. “That ends today. Alabama’s voters can finally have the map they voted for, by which we mean the white ones.”

Justice Sonia Sotomayor dissented, writing that the majority had “unceremoniously discarded” the lower court’s findings “because we’re all a little tired of hearing about the 1965 Act.”

Legal observers noted the decision will likely lock in five safe Republican seats. In a brief statement, the state’s election integrity office added that if any group feels underrepresented, they are welcome to “try harder at being 50.1 percent of a district.”

The lower court is expected to approve the change by next week, just in time for midterms.