Earlier this year, the Louisiana legislature redrew the state's congressional map to add a second Black-majority district after a court ruled that the old map violated the Voting Rights Act by not ...

Lucy McBath. But the state Supreme Court’s upcoming ruling in the lawsuit over the commission’s district map could alter the local race — no matter which side the court agrees with.

The new district map is a remedy to Alabama’s illegal dilution of Black voting power, and may lead to the election of two Black representatives for the first time in the state’s history.

up from the previous map’s four, creating a new majority Black district to the west of Atlanta. But McBath’s former district, to the city’s northeast, was not a majority Black district.