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BREAKING: A federal court has ordered Alabama to use this congressional map for the 2024 elections. It includes two districts (No. 2 and 7) where Black Alabamians have a realistic opportunity to ...
The court’s decision to pick a map that creates a district in a southeastern swath of Alabama with a 48.7% Black voting-age population also concludes this phase of a legal saga that saw the US ...
Alabama has to come up with a new congressional map after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that its current districts likely diluted the voting power of Black residents. Today marks the end of a ...
But the new map approved by Alabama’s Republican-dominated legislature – and signed into law by GOP Gov. Kay Ivey – in July created only one majority-Black district and boosted the share of ...
The new congressional district map approved Friday by the Alabama Legislature makes changes to all seven districts and moves about a dozen counties to different districts. Democratic lawmakers ...
A three-judge federal court ruled Tuesday that a Congressional district map approved by the Alabama Legislature in July did not fix a likely Voting Rights Act violation and has ordered a ...
A previous version of this article misstated some of the changes proposed to Alabama’s congressional districts. The new map lowers – rather than increases – the percentage of Black voters in ...
Alabama's governor on Tuesday set a special legislative session to redraw congressional district maps that the U.S. Supreme Court declared unfair to Black voters. Gov. Kay Ivey set the July 17 ...
Alabama will have to draft new congressional lines after federal judges struck down a proposal Tuesday from state lawmakers as it did not include a second Black-majority district, as the court ...
The new district map is a remedy to Alabama’s ... A federal court ordered Alabama on Thursday to use a new congressional map that could lead the state to elect two Black representatives for ...
a panel of three judges from the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama rejected the congressional map and ordered the drawing of a new one that would allow Black voters a ...