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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — The lines on Alabama's congressional map have shifted — along with some of the state's political power. After a high-profile legal fight that lasted roughly two years ...
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 ...
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 ...
A panel of three federal judges rejected Alabama’s latest version of its congressional map Tuesday, saying the state’s Republican-led legislature did not follow a court order backed by the U.S ...
The new district map is a remedy to Alabama’s illegal dilution of Black voting power, and may lead to the election of two Black representatives for the first time in the state’s history.
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WSFA) - Gov. Kay Ivey signed into law Friday afternoon a controversial new map, approved less than two hours earlier by the Alabama Legislature. The court-ordered congressional ...
A federal judge on Tuesday said the court will soon adopt new congressional boundaries for Alabama after its previous map, ruled a racial gerrymander, was overturned. The new map will give the ...
Three federal judges who ruled last year that Alabama’s congressional district map most likely violated the Voting Rights Act will decide whether a new map approved by the Legislature in July ...
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 ...
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 same flaws: Namely, it does not ...
May 8 (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 that ...
Federal judges had ruled that the state’s 2022 district map diluted Black voters’ power. Photo by Kim Chandler/Associated Press. BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — The lines on Alabama’s congressional map ...