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If granted, Alabama would become the only state since 2013 to have its congressional redistricting process approved by the ...
Alabama's most recent congressional map proposal went before a three-judge court on Monday to see if it fixes probably violations of the Voting Rights Act. The new map, approved by the Legislature ...
The map, dubbed the “Community of Interest” map, has one majority Black voting age population at 51.55% in the 7th congressional district, taking in Birmingham and most of the western Black ...
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 ...
Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall, a Republican, argued that the new map kept communities of interest intact, unifying the state’s so-called Black Belt, named for its fertile black soil.
Alabama's Republican-controlled legislature on Friday passed a new congressional map that increased the number of Black voters in one of the state's districts, but Democrats said the plan defied a ...
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 ...
Alabama’s state Senate voted 24-6 on party lines in July to recommend a new map, with the state’s House voting 75-28 in favor of the map, though it only included one Black majority district ...
The Birmingham court said the map would need to be redrawn, but the Supreme Court intervened and said a new map could not be put in place so close to the primary races ahead of the 2022 election.