A federal court on Thursday approved a new congressional map in Alabama that significantly boosts the Black population of a second district and could represent a pickup opportunity for Democrats ...

On Thursday, the judges decided to enforce the third map drawn by the special master. The map doesn't include a second majority-Black district. District 2 has a Black voting-age population of 48.7%.

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

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — A panel of federal judges on Monday began a review of Alabama’s redrawn congressional map, which opponents argued defies the court’s mandate to create a second district ...

On Thursday, the judges decided to enforce the third map drawn by the special master. The map doesn’t include a second majority-Black district. District 2 has a Black voting-age population of 48.7%.

Judges initiated a review of Alabama's redrawn congressional map, which opponents claim violates court orders to establish a district where Black voters can influence election outcomes.

Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall, a Republican, argued that the new map kept communities of interest intact, unifying the state’s so-called Black Belt, named for its fertile black soil.

A new Alabama state congressional map ordered by federal judges earlier this month will be used in the 2024 election even as the state continues its opposition against it, Attorney General Steve ...

Proposals for Alabama's congressional map, as submitted by special master Richard Allen, show options 1, 2, and 3, with the third being selected by the federal court. (Source: Court filing) ...

Alabama is under a federal court order to draw a new congressional map with two districts where Black voters have a chance to elect their preferred candidate. But its GOP-led legislature refused.

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 s… ...

The new map is the end — for now — of a lengthy legal battle that pitted Alabama’s Republican-led legislature against Democrats and civil rights groups.