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.

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 ...

More: Alabama adds Juneteenth as an official state holiday The court in early 2022 cited racially polarized voting in Alabama — where white Alabamians tend to vote for Republicans and Black ...

Among the remaining claims in the case are that state lawmakers intentionally drew maps to deny Black voters the chance to elect their candidates of choice, Ross said. If the plaintiffs win next year, ...

The congressional plan Alabama drew after the 2020 census made six out of the seven districts majority White, even though 27% of the state’s population is Black.

Trump cut off the reporter and said, "I don't know. I don't know. I don't know." He also said the map had been from three or four days before, when it had actually been issued six days earlier.

In 2023, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld an earlier ruling stating that Alabama’s district map likely discriminated against Black voters and mandated redrawing the 2nd District. The new area has a ...