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%.

The map was drawn by a court-appointed special master and creates a new purple 2nd congressional district running from Mobile County in Tillman’s Corner north through the southern Black Belt to ...

District 5 would still be the city’s least-populated and District 8 the most-populated under the proposed map, but the difference between them would be about 13,000 people rather than 50,000.