BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — The lines on Alabama's congressional map have shifted — along with some of the state's political power. After a high-profile legal fight that lasted roughly two years ...

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 ...

The plaintiffs who are challenging Alabama’s congressional map under the Voting Rights Act want a federal three-judge panel to block the legislature-approved map from being used in 2024. And ...

A panel of three federal judges on Thursday chose a new Alabama congressional map that maintains a Black-majority district in the state and establishes another near-Black-majority district that ...

judges reject alabama's new congressional district map after lawmakers exclude 2nd black majority district Alabama said it plans to appeal the ruling and will argue to restore the state-drawn lines.

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WSFA) - Gov. Kay Ivey signed into law Friday afternoon a controversial new map, approved less than two hours earlier by the Alabama Legislature. The court-ordered congressional ...

Now Alabama is asking the justices to step in again as it argues that its 2023 map passes legal muster even if it doesn’t include a second majority-Black district. In a filing with the Supreme ...

In June, Alabama lost at the U.S. Supreme Court. A majority of justices upheld a lower court's ruling that found the congressional map the state used in last year's midterm elections likely ...

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 same flaws: Namely, it does not ...

A federal court ordered Alabama to adopt a new congressional redistricting map with a second Black opportunity district on Thursday, the latest development in the protracted battle between the ...

The court’s decision to pick a map that creates a district in a southeastern swath of Alabama with a 48.7% Black voting-age population also concludes this phase of a legal saga that saw the US ...

Alabama finally has a new congressional map after a lengthy legal fight. Stephan Bisaha, Gulf States Newsroom | October 9, 2023. A line of people wait outside the federal courthouse in Birmingham ...