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 ...

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 federal court has picked Alabama’s new congressional map, which will likely result in an additional Black — and Democratic — member in the delegation. The new map came after the same panel ...

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 ...

Shortly before Alabama quarterback Jake Coker was set to arrive at his dais for the College Football Playoff media day on Saturday at the Phoenix Convention Center, a worker arrived with a ladder.

A federal court blocked a newly drawn Alabama congressional map on Tuesday because it didn’t create a second majority-Black district as the Supreme Court had ordered earlier this year.

Map 3 mostly closely aligns with the 2023 redistricting map passed by the Alabama Legislature. “We do not have the authority to simply select the plan that outperforms all other proposed plans ...

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 ...

Republicans failed to comply with a court order to create a second majority Black district or something “close to it,” the judicial panel said. By Emily Cochrane Emily Cochrane covers the ...

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 ...