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affirmed a lower court ruling that ordered Alabama officials to redraw its congressional map to include a second district that gave Black voters equal opportunity to elect their favored candidate ...
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 ...
The Supreme Court restored a congressional voting map in Louisiana on Wednesday that includes an additional majority-Black district, handing a victory to African American voters and Democrats less ...
Special Master Richard Allen submitted three proposed Alabama congressional district maps to a three-judge federal district court on Monday, the deadline set by the court. In a report to the court ...
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 ...
Republicans failed to comply with a court ... that a new map needed to be drawn because Republican lawmakers had failed to comply with orders to create a second majority Black district or ...
After the legislature redrew a map that fell short of its second majority Black district, attorneys for the plaintiffs argued to the court that the legislature “confuse[s] the issues and ignore ...
Democrats contended the Republicans’ efforts to redraw the map by dismantling that coalition district also violated the Voting Rights Act and didn’t comply with the court’s orders ...