Alabama has formally asked the U.S. Supreme Court to clear the way for it to use a congressional map that it had adopted in 2023, which has one majority-black district, rather than a court-ordered map that has two such districts. Alabama Solicitor General A. Barrett Bowdre told the justices that otherwise the state would have to “hold elections under a map that was erroneously ordered at best and unconstitutional at worst. Nothing requires that …