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%.

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 ...

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 ...

A three-judge panel selected a new congressional map for Alabama on Thursday, one that will likely give Democrats another seat in the U.S. House of Representatives.

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%.

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.

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.

Topline Alabama lawmakers advanced a new congressional map on Monday—as required by the U.S. Supreme Court, which found the map lawmakers drew after the 2020 Census violated the Voting Rights ...

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.

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.

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… ...