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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.
Back to the cartography board The legal tug-of-war over Alabama's congressional map started shortly after the state redrew its districts in 2021. Despite Black Alabamians making up 27% of the ...
Redrawn Alabama electoral map intentionally discriminatory, court rules By Nate Raymond May 8, 20255:46 PM PDTUpdated May 8, 2025 ...
A central point of discussion was whether a clause in the 1965 Voting Rights Act could be used to address ongoing concerns ...
A federal court on Thursday approved a new congressional map in Alabama that significantly boosts the Black population of a second district and could represent a pickup opportunity for Democrats ...
For the first time since the Supreme Court weighed in, on Tuesday, Alabama will vote using its new Congressional map that gives Black voters more power.
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 ...
Alabama's Republican-backed congressional map illegally dilutes Black residents' voting power and must be redrawn, a panel of three federal judges ruled on Tuesday, a decision that the state said ...
Alabama asked the Supreme Court on Monday evening to freeze a lower court ruling that blocks the state’s newly drawn congressional map, in a filing that critics say defies a Supreme Court ...
Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall will appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court a ruling rejecting Alabama’s new congressional map. “While we are disappointed in today’s decision, we strongly ...
Lawyers for Alabama voters urged the justices to stay out of a dispute over the state’s congressional map. Eight days after the state asked the Supreme Court to temporarily block lower-court rulings ...