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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 ...
After the decennial count, the state adopted a congressional map with a single Black-majority congressional district out of six in a state where about 30 percent of voters are Black. Voters and ...
News Court-ordered Alabama congressional maps add 2nd opportunity district for Black voters Updated: Sep. 25, 2023, 10:37 p.m. | Published: Sep. 25, 2023, 6:32 p.m.
Alabama legislature passes redistricting maps that Democrats say defy court order Updated July 19, 2023 More than 1 year ago 5 min Summary ...
The new map lowers – rather than increases – the percentage of Black voters in an existing Black-majority district. It also draws up another district in an area with a 40 percent Black population.
A redrawn map of Alabama voting districts in the aftermath of a Supreme Court decision does not satisfy requirements ordered by the court as part of its June decision, and one state representative ...
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%.
In fact, when the three-judge court blocked Alabama from using the congressional map in January 2022, the start of absentee voting for the primary elections was more than two months away.
Alabama GOP Gov. Kay Ivey on Friday approved a new congressional map with just one majority-Black district, despite a court order calling for the redrawn lines to create two majority-Black ...
An Alabama official asked the Supreme Court on Monday to halt a lower court’s order for a special master to draw a new congressional map before the 2024 election.
A panel of federal judges rejected Alabama’s latest congressional map on Tuesday, ruling that a new map needed to be drawn because Republican lawmakers had failed to comply with orders to create ...