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Alabama's new, court-picked map adds a second congressional district where Black voters' preferred candidate is projected to win a majority of the time.
Alabama lawmakers refused to create a second majority-Black congressional district, a move that could defy an order from the U.S. Supreme Court to give minority voters a greater voice in elections.
Federal judges ruled Thursday that Alabama intentionally discriminated against Black residents when the state disobeyed court orders to draw a second Black-majority congressional district. A three ...
A three-judge federal court has picked the map Alabama will use for its congressional elections next year, one that will add a second district where Black residents make up close to half of the ...
Alabama congressional map struck down again for diluting Black voting power. A three-judge federal panel said it was ‘deeply troubled’ that the state legislature had not complied with an ...
The seven district map—which was drawn by 15 white Republicans and six Black Democrats in the state legislature—contains only one majority-Black district, despite the fact that Black Alabama ...
Federal judges ruled Alabama discriminated against Black residents in drawing congressional districts, and now the court must decide whether to require the state receive federal approval of its maps.
A federal court blocked a newly drawn Alabama congressional map on Tuesday because it didn’t create a second majority-Black district as the Supreme Court had ordered earlier this year.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday handed a major victory to Black voters who challenged a Republican-drawn electoral map in Alabama, finding the state violated a landmark law prohibiting racial ...
A federal court in Alabama on Thursday ordered the state to use a new congressional map that includes a second district where Black voters will have an opportunity to decide the result.
The court-ordered map used in the 2024 elections resulted in Alabama electing two Black representatives to Congress for the first time in history, the groups said.