Milligan, upheld a trial court ruling striking down the map. Then Alabama tried again — with a map that, like the 2021 version, still had only one district with a Black majority.

By Nate Raymond (Reuters) -A federal court ruled on Thursday that Alabama's Republican-led legislature intentionally discriminated against Black voters when it approved a new electoral map in 2023 ...

Instead, lawmakers passed another map that only marginally increased Black voters’ share in a second district. Once again, the same three-judge panel reviewed Alabama’s map.

Alabama Republicans were ordered by a federal court to redraw their congressional maps to ensure that there were two majority-Black districts. They didn’t. Instead, this week, they’re going ...

Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall, a Republican, argued that the new map kept communities of interest intact, unifying the state’s so-called Black Belt, named for its fertile black soil.

The plaintiffs who are challenging Alabama’s congressional map under the Voting Rights Act want a federal three-judge panel to block the legislature-approved map from being used in 2024. And ...

Alabama’s state Senate voted 24-6 on party lines in July to recommend a new map, with the state’s House voting 75-28 in favor of the map, though it only included one Black majority district ...

UPDATE (July 18, 2023, 3:50 p.m.): On Tuesday, a Senate committee in Alabama passed a different congressional map from the one discussed below, but it has the s… ...

Alabama’s high-stakes Supreme Court fight over racial gerrymandering, explained Merrill v. Milligan could eliminate one of the few remaining nationwide safeguards against rigged legislative maps.

Redrawn Alabama electoral map intentionally discriminatory, court rules By Nate Raymond May 8, 20255:46 PM PDTUpdated May 8, 2025 ...