Washington, D.C. – Supreme Court justices today will review a voting rights dispute from Alabama in which Governor Riley filled a county commission vacancy by appointing a Republican to represent a heavily Democratic district.
He appointed Juan Chastang, a Republican, to the commission in November 2005. Democrats challenged the move because the Justice Department had not approved the move under the federal Voting Rights Act.
A federal court removed the Republican from his seat on the Mobile County commission and a Democrat won a special election last October.
Riley will attend the oral argument in Washington.
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