What the Alabama congressional map fight could mean for 2024 03:53. Federal judges on Thursday selected new congressional lines for Alabama to give the Deep South state a second district where ...

Alabama's new, court-picked map adds a second congressional district where Black voters' preferred candidate is projected to win a majority of the time.

Federal judges ruled Thursday that Alabama intentionally discriminated against Black residents when the state disobeyed court orders to draw a second Black-majority congressional district. A three ...

A three-judge federal court has picked the map Alabama will use for its congressional elections next year, one that will add a second district where Black residents make up close to half of the ...

Alabama lawmakers refused to create a second majority-Black congressional district, a move that could defy an order from the U.S. Supreme Court to give minority voters a greater voice in elections.

WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court on Thursday unexpectedly ruled against Alabama in a challenge to its recently redrawn congressional districts, smacking down an argument for "color-blind ...

One district on the map is 53 percent Black and 43 percent white. The next largest Black population share in a district is only 44 percent, as compared to 52 percent white. All of the Democrats on ...

By contrast, the district drafted by GOP lawmakers and unanimously rejected by the three judges had a Black voting-age population of 39.9%, meaning it would continue to elect mostly white ...

Federal judges ruled Alabama discriminated against Black residents in drawing congressional districts, and now the court must decide whether to require the state receive federal approval of its maps.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday handed a major victory to Black voters who challenged a Republican-drawn electoral map in Alabama, finding the state violated a landmark law prohibiting racial ...

Alabama, since 1992, has only had one majority Black congressional district since Reconstruction and only three Black members of Congress have been elected from the state, all from Alabama’s 7th ...

Then the court, led by Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., upheld a three-judge panel that had found Alabama’s election map had a discriminatory effect on Black voters.. Even though they made up ...