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The state House district map was approved on a 25-to-7 vote. The House gave final approval to a 2022 state Senate map on a 76-to-26 vote, and a State Board of Education map on a 76-to-26 vote.
A panel of three federal judges on Thursday chose a new Alabama ... map that maintains a Black-majority district in the state and establishes another near-Black-majority district that could flip a ...
Federal judges have selected a new congressional map for Alabama ... seat in the House. Black voters remain a strong Democratic constituency in the Yellowhammer State, and the new district will ...
But when Alabama produced its new map in July, it came under immediate legal challenge because the state, once again, declined to create a second majority-Black district. State legislators instead ...
Plaintiffs who alleged in 2021 that nearly a quarter of Alabama Senate and House districts were racially gerrymandered in the most recent redrawing of district maps have narrowed the scope of ...
The Republican-led Alabama House of Representatives ... session to redraw the state’s congressional districts, after the Supreme Court ruled in June that the current map likely violates the ...
The Republican-led House and Senate in Alabama approved dueling congressional maps Wednesday that would increase the percentage of Black voters in the state’s 2nd District — but not by enough ...
The lines on Alabama's congressional map have shifted — along with some of the state's political ... them in the U.S. House. The new map adds a second congressional district where Black voters ...
THIS COMES A DAY AFTER A SPECIAL MASTER IN THE CASE PRESENTED THREE NEW MAP PROPOSALS, INCLUDING ONE WITH MAJOR CHANGES IN DISTRICT TWO ... IN A STATEMENT, ALABAMA STATE HOUSE MINORITY LEADER ANTHONY ...
This new map showed two majority-Black districts. Republicans in the state faulted ... have effects beyond Alabama. Republicans currently hold a slim majority in the U.S. House, and this decision ...
The maps drafted ... make up 27% of the state’s population. A second Black-majority district in Alabama could offer Democrats an opportunity to pick up another House seat in the 2024 elections ...